Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Common questions that arise during content creation.

37 articles in this collection
Written by Richie Cotton, Yashas Roy, and Amy Peterson

Learner categories: individual/group and paid/free

Learn about the four categories of DataCamp learner

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Filtering Content Dashboard tables

How to filter tables in the Content Dashboard by row

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Profanity and sensitive content in data

Can your dataset include profanity, political, religious, or potentially offensive content?

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

pandas DataFrame printing

How do you deal with pandas DataFrames not printing in full?

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

How much code scaffolding?

Guidance on the amount of code scaffolding to use in sample code

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

How do I write special characters?

How to write punctuation, emoji, non-ASCII characters.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

How do I insert a table?

How to insert a table of values into a slide or an exercise.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Describing pre-exercise code

How to explain what you did in pre-exercise code.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Course rating calculation

Learn how the average rating of a course is calculated.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Finding the course ID

How to find the identification number of your course.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Unavailable packages

What if you need a package that isn't currently available on DataCamp's servers.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

DataCamp content hosting

Is it possible to host private DataCamp content?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

GitHub

DataCamp commits on GitHub

Why is "DataCamp" making commits in my repo?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Datasets

Using web APIs

Learn whether it's possible to create an exercise with a web API call.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Allowed dataset file formats

Learn the appropriate file formats to store datasets for your DataCamp course or project.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Sources of data

Where to find datasets for your DataCamp course or project.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Dataset size

What is the limit for the size of a dataset in a course?

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Using synthetic datasets

Learn when it's appropriate to use synthetic data and when it's not.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

How many datasets per course?

Learn how many (or few) datasets to use in your course.

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Datasets to avoid

Find out which datasets you should NOT use in your course.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Writing

Exercise hints

Write informative hints to help your students complete an exercises without giving away the solution.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Writing LaTex

How to write LaTeX in Markdown in DataCamp's editor.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Format text as code

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Spell checking in the editor

How do I easily spell check my course?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

You or we?

Should I use "you" or "we" when referring to students?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Dealing with synonyms

How should I deal with synonyms for jargon?

Written by Richie Cotton
Updated over a week ago

Exercise instructions

Write clear instructions that guide students through the code without giving away the solution.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Sentence case or title case

When should I use sentence case and when should I use title case in my course?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Exercise success messages

Write insightful success messages that not only encourage students, but build their data fluency.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

What should Exercise Context contain?

Write clear and informative context that helps your students engage with your exercises.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Formatting

Scaffolding in sample code

Learn how to create the scaffolding in your course to redact sample code.

Written by Yashas Roy
Updated over a week ago

Working with the editor

Exercise sections

Why are there so many parts to an exercise?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Slides & Scripts

Copyright

Can I use images from external sources?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Code input and output

Learn how to show input and output on your slides.

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Resizing images

How do I resize an image on a slide?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Transcript format

How do I properly format my transcript?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago

Links in video exercises

How do I put links in a video exercise?

Written by Amy Peterson
Updated over a week ago