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2015-2016 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

DSC 101 - Introduction to Data Science

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Introduction to data science and big data. Topics include: the varied nature of data; applied data problems; introduction to R; integrating data systems; data frames; descriptive statistics; sampling statistics; large to very large data sets; analysis of social network data; unstructured data and natural language texts; data storage, SQL databases; data input and output; combining data and data mashups; linear regression; data mining.
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