What do Google and Amazon do with all the data they collect every day? Data science is booming. Fundamental to this course is the difference between scientific experimentation, statistics, and big data.
Students in this course learn some of the tools that data scientists use to get value from huge amounts of data. Students complete their own research on data of interest and generate statistics using software such as Stata, R, and SQL. A unit of this class also focuses on managing data with Excel. This course is appropriate for students who have completed Integrated Math I or the equivalent.
