Data Analytics and Computation 601 - Data Science Fundamentals

This course provides students with an introduction to the R programming language that will be used in all core courses and many of the technical electives. There is a growing demand for students with a background in generalist data science languages such as R, as opposed to more limited software such as Excel or statistics packages such as SPSS or Stata. The course will also provide students with a solid grounding in general data management and data wrangling skills that are required in all advanced quantitative and data analysis courses.

Open to DACSS masters students and SBS PhD students only This is a required core course for the Masters of Science and the Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS).

Open to DACSS Master's and SBS PhD students; others by instructor permission. Please contact the instructor and DACSS@UMass.edu if you would like to enroll in this class but are not in one of these groups.