Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Common questions that arise during content creation.

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36 articles in this collection
Written by Richie Cotton, Yashas Roy, Amy Peterson and 2 others

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

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 George Boorman
Updated yesterday

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 George Boorman
Updated yesterday

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

How and when to format text as code

Written by Izzy Weber
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