CIS 9 - Introduction to Data Science

Course Description

This class introduces basic concepts of data science with hands-on projects in :

  • Data gathering
  • Data wrangling
  • Data assessment and visualization
  • Supervised and unsupervised machine learning
  • Natural language processing

Prerequisites

  • CIS 41A or an equivalent intermediate Python course

Attendance

This is an online, synchronous course:

  • 2 hours of lecture discussions per week, exams, and office hours on Zoom
  • Lecture notes, forum discussions, quizzes, assignments are online and done on your own time.

Evaluation

Letter grades are assigned based on:

  • 5 quizzes
  • 5 lab assignments
  • 2 midterm exams
  • 1 comprehensive final exam or final project
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