Programming for Data Science

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to using programming to manipulate data, a fundamental skill in both computer science and data science. Students will learn to write and modify scripts and programs to import data from local files and the Internet from a variety of storage formats such as csv files, text files, XML files, and relational databases and manipulate the data programmatically using a variety of data structures. Students will learn introductory data visualization techniques as well as get an introduction on how to use AI and statistics to analyze data.