This course helps students understand and apply concepts, techniques, algorithms and tools to analyze, manage and visualize data in order to help them discover information and knowledge to guide effective decision-making and gain new insights from large data sets. The course helps the student on how to analyze data collected from some realistic phenomena to understand these phenomena. The student acquires the concepts and skills needed for programming in the Python language as well as statistical inference, along with the practical analysis of real-life data sets, including economic data, document collections, geographic data, and social networks. The course briefly addresses the social and legal issues surrounding data analysis, including privacy and data ownership issues.