DATA IN EMERGING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

Catalog description

Students work through all levels of data analysis, including accessing data; combining and cleaning datasets; describing data through report-writing and visualization; applying inferential statistics; identifying data-informed insights; and making data-based decisions and conveying those decisions to a lay audience. This course uses Python to process data and introduce students to report writing, sharing and documentation with a focus on the strengths and limitations of both "big" and "small" data and ethical data practices.