EPSY 6194-010 Seminar in Data Science
Thursdays from 4-7pm
Fall 2017
Instructor: Dr. Betsy McCoach
Data Science has grown from a buzzword to a burgeoning field in the past decade. Data scientists must be able to harvest, tame, and manipulate data as well as to ask and answer important questions of interest through data analysis, and they must be able to communicate their results to a variety of audiences, both verbally and visually. As such, data science involves a combination of computer programming, analytic, creative and critical thinking, and communications skills. In this graduate seminar in data science, we will explore the new interdisciplinary field of data science. This course is meant as an introduction to data science for graduate students who have already taken basic coursework in quantitative research methods and/or statistics. The focus of this course is practical and applied. Students will learn some basic programming skills (in Python, Stata, and R), and will learn to gather, store, manipulate, analyze, and communicate data to answer research questions and solve problems.
For more information, contact: Betsy at betsy@uconn.edu