Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering CMSC 491: Introduction to Data Science Professor: Abhijit Dutt, PhD
Course Description
Data science is an evolving and interdisciplinary field that involves extraction of knowledge from both structured and unstructured data as well as efficient management of those data. It uses techniques and theories drawn from many different fields such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, social science etc.
Course Objectives
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Introduce the basic terminologies and concepts associated with data science.
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Understand how to do data manipulation, analysis, and presentation.
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Learn different statistical techniques for model building and knowledge extraction
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Apply the learned techniques to some analytics problem through a project.