Statistics and Data Sciences 235 - VISUAL ANALYTICS

Visual analytics techniques can help people to derive insight from massive, dynamic, ambiguous and often conflicting data. During this course, students learn the foundations of the emerging, multidisciplinary field of visual analytics and apply these techniques toward a focused research problem in a domain of personal interest. Students may elect to take SDS 235 as a programming intensive course (prerequisite: CSC 212). In this track, students learn to use R, Python and HTML5/JavaScript to develop custom visual analytic tools. Students preferring a nonprogramming intensive track may elect to use existing visual analytic software, such as Tableau and Plotly. Prerequisite: CSC 111 or permission of instructor. (E)