Introducing Data Science to Spanish Speaker Students Using the TCLab Arduino Kit

Data Science techniques hold the potential of analyzing data from multiple sources, which is crucial in knowledge discovery and decision making. It is a promising career with solid demand growth. Therefore, students are pursuing efforts to understand and learn about this topic. Spanish speaker students, however, have difficulties on obtaining hands-on training about this topic in their native language, then, the production of video lectures in Spanish are desirable. This paper shows the perception of 177 students who took the “Introduction to Data Science” course produced by [1] and translated by the authors. In addition, the optional use of the Arduino APMonitor temperature control lab (TCLab) as a tool to enhance learning is studied. Multiple correspondence analysis studied the answers of the survey filled before and after the course. According to students' opinion, there was improvement in their abilities to program, use Python and Arduinos after finishing the course.