Principles and Techniques in Data Science

Catalog description

(F) Principles and Techniques in Data Science (PTDS) (DASC 2113) is an intermediate semesterlong data science course that follows an overview of data science in today’s world. This class bridges between introduction to data science and upper division data science courses as well as methods courses in other concentrations. This class equips students with essential basic elements of data science, ranging from database systems, data acquisition, storage and query, data cleansing, data wrangling, basic data summarization and visualization, and data estimation and modeling. Students will gain hands-on experience using Python and various packages in Python.