Fall 2017

Data Science

Listed in: Mathematics and Statistics, as STAT-231

Faculty

Alexander Baldenko (Section 01)

Description

Computational data analysis is an essential part of modern statistics and data science. This course provides a practical foundation for students to think with data by participating in the entire data analysis cycle. Students will generate statistical questions and then address them through data acquisition, cleaning, transforming, modeling, and interpretation. This course will introduce students to tools for data management and wrangling that are common in data science and will apply those tools to real-world applications. Students will undertake practical analyses of large, complex, and messy data sets leveraging modern computing tools.

Requisite: STAT 111 or STAT 135 and COSC 111 or consent of the instructor. Limited to 24 students. Fall semester: TBA.  Spring semester: Professor Horton.

If Overenrolled: priority for sophomores then STAT majors

Cost: $100 ?

STAT 231 - L/D

Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM MERR 131
Th 02:30 PM - 03:50 PM MERR 131

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Modern Data Science with R CRC Press Baumer, Kaplan and Horton Amherst Books TBD

These books are available locally at Amherst Books.

Offerings

2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022