Data science is a field that combines mathematics, computer science and statistics, with the goal of answering questions and discovering new information from data. Data has become an increasingly popular and reliable tool, which more and more organizations adopt to support their decision and build data-intensive products and services. Therefore, data science is an important field to support those functions and develop those skills. This course will cover essential elements of data science including data collection and management, summarizing and visualizing data, utilizing basic ideas of statistical inference, and machine learning. Students will gain hands-on experience through using statistical software.