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Data Science

Spring 2019 - Section 002 - Larry Dignan

Data Science

MIS 0855.002 ■ SPRING 2019 ■ LARRY DIGNAN
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Welcome to MIS 0855!

January 1, 2019

We are all drowning in data, and so is your future employer. Data pours in from sources as diverse as social media, customer loyalty programs, weather stations, smartphones, and credit card purchases. How can you make sense of it all? Those that can turn raw data into insight will be tomorrow’s decision-makers; those that can solve problems and communicate using data will be tomorrow’s leaders. This course will teach you how to harness the power of data by mastering the ways it is stored, organized, and analyzed to enable better decisions. You will get hands-on experience by solving problems using a variety of powerful, computer-based data tools virtually every organization uses. You will also learn to make more impactful and persuasive presentations by learning the key principles of presenting data visually.

It’s also worth noting that data science and literacy will apply to every profession. In fact, data science is forcing more integration between various fields and careers.

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  • Final Exam Reminder
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  • In class exercise 13.2 driver download
  • In-Class Exercise 13.2: Simple Predictive Analytics
  • Primer on descriptive, prescriptive, predictive analytics

For student help:

Larry Dignan

Phone: 267.614.6467

Office hours: 5:00-5:30pm and 8 to 8:30pm, Mondays, main campus; By appt via Zoom, Skype, FaceTime etc.

ITA: Nhi Nguyen

Great Data Sites

  • FiveThirtyEight
  • Guardian Data Blog
  • Flowing Data
  • Financial Times Data Blog
  • Socrata Open Data
  • Pew Research Data

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