Community Data Science

1 Course Unit

This course provides students with the opportunity to hone their data science skills and gain practical experience by working with a community organization on a data science problem of interest to the organization. Students will gain skills in problem formulation, collaboration with community organizations and communication of data science results. Students will work in groups of 3-5 on a data science problem of interest to a community organization. This is an Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) course. Prerequisite: The course presumes that students have taken a sequence of introductory statistics courses such as STAT 1010/1020, or 4300/4310 and that they have taken a course that has exposed them to more advanced techniques such as STAT 4220, 4230, 4420, 4710 or 4730. It will be assumed that students have knowledge of a statistical programming language such as R or Python. Classes such as STAT 4050, 4700, 4770 or 4800 would meet this requirement. Fall Mutually Exclusive: STAT 4920 1 Course Unit