CSCI 4047
Data Analytics and Visualization
- Credit Hours
- 3
- Contact Hours
- 3
- Course Coordinator
- Ghaith Husari
- Cross-listed
- CSCI 5047 — Data Analytics and Visualization
Catalog Description
Provides an introduction to data acquisition, cleaning, analysis, and visualization. This course exposes students to readily available and robust state-of-the-art tools to discover trends and make informed business decisions in fields such as finance, information sciences, marketing, healthcare, risk management, and others.
Prerequisite(s)
CSCI 2020 with a C- or better
Course Outcomes
- Define basic concepts in data analytics and list the state-of-the-art technologies in this domain.
- Design applications to gather relevant data, conduct data analytics using scientific methods.
- Defend and evaluate the existence of trends in any given dataset.
- Critique and defend using different data mining techniques and their suitability to a given problem.
Topics
- Data acquisition and social media.
- Structured and unstructured data analytics.
- Trend Discovery
- Regression and decision trees
- Mining complex types of data
- Knowledge evaluation
- Data Visualization
- Applications in data mining