Programming Languages for Data Science

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The goal of this course is to introduce the basic computer programming using Python and R to the undergraduate students who are interested in working in the rapidly growing fields of data science and data analytics. Python and R are two open-source programming languages with a large data scientist community. This course will introduce the basic programming skills and tools necessary to efficiently collect, process, visualize, and analyze the datasets. Hands-on projects will be given to help students gain experience with software packages.