2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Oct 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

DSCI 304 - Introduction to Data Science


Data is the fuel of the modern economy! An organization’s ability to manage data and generate insights enables better decision-making. In this course, we introduce a number of concepts, methods, and tools purposed with extracting information from data as we go through key issues in Data Science. We cover data representations in Python, visualizing data, statistics and probability, data gathering and processing, intro to machine learning, natural language processing, retrieval, and data ethics. Students will gain hands-on experience in the data science process: posing questions, gathering data, developing analyses, articulating and presenting data-informed decisions.

Prerequisites: Background in Calculus required; CSCI 301  

Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2025