Introduction to analytics programming

Catalog description

Students will gain a fundamental understanding of a popular programming language with a simple syntax and a powerful set of libraries by creating a variety of scripts for analytics, database access, and web applications. Programming for analytics is becoming an integral part of many professions ranging from finance and insurance to education and healthcare, and an essential skill for many professionals including healthcare researchers, practitioners and managers. This course is suitable for students without any prior programming experience. Students learn to implement basic coding skills for practical, real-world applications, which can be built in a simple cloud-based environment and will be able to organize and analyze data efficiently by writing scripts.