Computer Science 131 - Introduction to Data Science

This course will survey the foundational topics of the emerging field of Data Science. This course will introduce the skills, techniques, and tools needed to collect, prepare, analyze, and visualize data to quantitatively ask and answer questions. Through readings, discussions, case studies, and projects, students will explore a breadth of subjects including programming for data manipulation, the presentation and representation of data, statistics and machine learning, "Big Data," and the ethics of working with data at scale.