HON 3350 - Principles of Data and Society

Credit Hours: 3.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0

Prerequisite: None.
Description
During this course, students will be introduced to data science concepts and learn the necessary basic skills to manage and analyze data and be exposed to concepts such as exploratory data analysis, statistical inference and modeling, machine learning, and higher dimensional data analysis. The principles will be introduced through a fixed set of pre-selected projects, and grades will be assigned based on technical proficiency in straightforward and common data analytics tasks, causal inference and convincing argumentation, and comprehension of broad ethical and social issues.