CSC 365 Data Science Basics
This course introduces the data science basic concepts and tools. 1) the tools and soft skills required to effectively communicate the results to the stakeholders, 2) Big Data platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, and Spark, 3) the basic data analytics skills with Excel spreadsheets, 4) importing data sets from various sources, 5) prepare the data for analytics by cleaning and data wrangling, 6) construct and evaluate machine learning model, 7) conduct exploratory data analytics, and 8) present the result using plotting and visualization techniques.