Informatics 248 - Intro to Data Science
Spring
2020
01LL
0.00
F 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
44733
Integ. Learning Center N 111
This course is an introduction to the concepts and skills involved with the collection, management, analysis, and presentation of data sets and the data products that result from the work of data scientists. Privacy, algorithmic bias and ethical issues are discussed. Students will work with data from the financial, epidemiological, educational, and other domains. The course provides many case studies and examples of real-world data that students work with using various tools including the R programming language as well as the structured query language (SQL).
Open to INFORM majors. COMPSCI 121, PSYCH 240+ w/ C
https://spire.umass.edu
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.