What’s the big deal with Data Science?

This seminar serves as a practical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of data science. Over the course of the semester, students will be exposed to the diversity of questions that data science can address by reading current scholarly works from leading researchers. Through hands-on labs and experiences, students will gain facility with computational and visualization techniques for uncovering meaning from large numerical and text-based data sets. Ultimately, students will gain fluency with data science vocabulary and ideas. There are no prerequisites for this course.