2019-2020 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

DATA 511 Introduction to Data Science

Introduction to the analysis of data using a data scientific methodology.  Topics include data preparation, missing data, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, statistical estimation and prediction, cross-validation, model evaluation techniques, misclassification costs, cost-benefit analysis, classification and regression trees and report writing. 

Credits

4

Prerequisite

B or better in a first semester statistics course, such as STAT 104 or STAT 200 or STAT 215 or permission of department chair.

General Education

Offered

  • Fall and Spring