Tutor information
Ellen Visscher
Ellen is completing her DPhil at the University of Oxford in statistical machine learning with applications in healthcare. Before commencing her PhD, she worked as a backend software developer using Python. She has experience teaching Python programming courses and other university courses.
Courses
Based on Harvard's famed introductory course in computer science, CS50 is now available at Oxford. This course teaches you how to solve problems, both with and without code, with an emphasis on correctness, design, and style.
Gain insight into advanced data science programming tools, using the Python programming language, to extract features from data, assess the statistical significance of the results found, and scale up the computational capability for big data challenges.
Gain insight into the most important programming tools using the Python programming language, for obtaining data, bringing it into a usable form, exploring and modelling it, and for presenting discoveries to a wider audience.