Agent-Assisted Data Science Workshop
I am teaching a course to raise funds for the SciPy Financial Aid program. If you'd like to learn something and while giving something back, please join in!
Hello fellow datanistas!
I’m teaching a workshop on agentic data science, and all proceeds go to SciPy 2026.
The workshop is about how to use coding agents like Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode to compress what used to take weeks of work into a single day.
I’ve been using these techniques in my projects and with my teammates for the past year to compress experimental timelines from days to minutes.
What you’ll learn:
Prescriptive prompting for experiments
Project structure for agents
Logging and verification strategies
Report writing with AI
Staying in control during EDA
The minimalist version first
The techniques work across platforms. Whether you use Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, or something else, the patterns transfer.
The details:
Date: March 27 and April 3, 2026
Time: 2:00-4:00 PM EST
Venue: Google Meet (calendar invite will be provided)
$1,000 minimum donation, paid directly to NumFOCUS (tax-deductible)
Spots: 40 available
If you can’t attend live, video recordings will be available to all confirmed participants.
Basic Python and data science experience is assumed. No prior AI or LLM experience is required.
How to sign up:
Reserve your spot at the workshop website
Donate at least $1,000
Submit your receipt to confirm
Sign up: https://agent-assisted-data-science.vercel.app/
(In case you were curious, I built that sign-up app with agent-assistance!)
SciPy has been a big part of my professional life. I’ve taught tutorials there, contributed to open-source packages in the ecosystem, and learned an enormous amount from the community. This workshop is my way of giving back.
If you’ve been curious about agentic data science but didn’t know where to start, this will give you techniques you can use the very next day.
Happy coding!
Eric