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  • Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None

    This course provides students with a practical introduction to the field of Data Science and familiarizes them with the essential facets of the data scientist profession.  This includes a grounding on data-based reasoning, problem formulation, data collection, data pre-processing, data analytics, visualization, and the ethics surrounding the use of data and its processing.

    Learning Objectives

    Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

    • Assess and articulate the relevance of data for a particular business or societal problem.
    • Collect, store, and retrieve data originating from multiple sources.
    • Preprocess diverse data into standardized formats.
    • Undertake exploratory data analysis to generate insights from the data.
    • Visualize data into charts and other visual representations for generating insights and supporting decision making.
    • Describe the ethical, legal, and social implications of such data collection and processing.