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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">NEW COURSE DEVELOPMENT -great LEARNING opportunity for Spring Term!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Want to have data science skills? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Want to learn more about education?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Would you like to explore data science applied to pharmacotherapy (Pharmacoanalytics)?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Want to present at a national meeting?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We have just the experience for you! Email Dr. Smith at <a href="mailto:smithrb@pitt.edu">smithrb@pitt.edu</a> if you are interested. Info below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are collaborating with SCI (School of Computing and Information) on the design and creation of a course to teach Python programming language. We will have some students from SCI and would love to have five
pharmacy students enroll in this 1-<b>credit special topics class for the spring term</b>. In the course, you will help the faculty create this course while taking it. You get to learn some curriculum design while you learn to program with Python. The designers/innovators/instructors
are Randy Smith and Ravi Patel from Pharmacy, Dmitiry Babichenko from SCI, and Robin Albright from the Center for Teaching and Learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">There are no prerequisites other than wanting to learn new things and to have fun. Time requirements are approximately 2 hours per week. <b>Tentatively planning on meeting Monday evenings from 6-8:30 pm.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">What is Python?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Often considered the most important programming language for data science. Here is a brief video that highlights some things you can do with Python<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://youtu.be/kK_2mzBARTU">https://youtu.be/kK_2mzBARTU</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Go here for reasonable description:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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