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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Computational Data Science in Physics I

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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Explore realistic, contemporary examples of how computational methods apply to physics research. In this first module, you will analyze LIGO data, detect a gravitational wave signal, and fit this signal within a physical model, among other objectives, using Jupyter notebooks.

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Probability distributions, error propagation, data fitting, uncertainty, likelihood, Fourier analysis, confidence, correlations, covariance, matched filtering, working with Jupyter notebooks.

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Philip Harris, Isaac Chuang, Jesse Thaler, and Alex Shvonski

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