MDATA 500 - Intro. to Data Science & the Data

Credits: (3)
This course presents an overview of the discipline of data science: its goals, methods, tools, and scope. Additionally, the course provides understanding of the end to end lifecycle of a data science initiative, and the variety of data products in today’s world that are a result of applied data science. As one of the top skillsets sought within the data science community, the R statistical computing environment is leveraged throughout the course. Projects throughout course provide opportunity to demonstrate mastery of course concepts specific to data manipulation, statistical analysis, and associated exploratory visualizations against a “tidy” data set. Ethical issues surrounding data collection and use are discussed. [Online]