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Data Science Spring 2020 - Section 1

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

DATA SCIENCE

MIS 0855.004 and MIS 0855.005 ■ SPRING 2019 ■ SEZGIN AYABAKAN
  • About
    • Syllabus
    • Instructor
    • Course details
    • Course materials
    • Grading
    • Getting Tableau
  • Announcements
  • Schedule
  • Assignments
    • Assignment 1
    • Assignment 2
    • Assignment 3 (Final Project)
    • Extra Credit Assignment
  • In-class Exercises (ICEs)
  • Readings
    • Readings Module 1
    • Readings Module 2
    • Readings Module 3
    • Readings Module 4

Readings Module 3

For links that take you to the Temple library, search for the article title using Summon. Check the syllabus for more information.

Session 7

  • Data’s Credibility Problem (Redman)
  • Damn Excel! How the ‘Most Important Software Application of All Time’ is Ruining the World (Gandel)
  • Stupid Data Corruption Tricks (Taber)
  • Top Ten Ways to Clean Your Data (Microsoft)

Session 8

  • Performance Indicator (Wikipedia)
  • The Tyranny of Success: Nonprofits and Metrics (Schambra)
  • Wearable Tech is Plugging Into Health Insurance (Olson)
  • Tracking Health One Step at a Time (Bialik)

Session 9

  • How Data Integration Works (Strickland)
  • The GOP Arms Itself for the Next “War” in the Analytics Arms Race (Gallagher)
  • Best Practices for Designing Views and Dashboards (Tableau)
  • The One Skill You Really Need for Data Analysis (Farmer) This one says website is under maintenance. In the meantime, you can use this version.

Instructor

Sezgin Ayabakan, PhD
ayabakan@temple.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30 - 4:30pm
Office: Speakman 201B

ITA Info

Section 001
ITA: Taylor Trench
Email: trench@temple.edu
Office Hour: Wednesdays 11:30am - 12:30pm
Office Loc: Speakman 201
Section 005
ITA: Oviya Soundararajan
Email: oviya.soundararajan@temple.edu
Office Hour: Mondays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Office Loc: Speakman 201

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Exam 3 Info and Study Guide and Review Session

EXAM 3 INFORMATION: This is very important. Do not confuse your Exam 3 … [More...]

ICE 13.1 Simple Predictive Analytics

Here are the files you will need: Guideline Dataset Driver … [More...]

ICE 12.2 Sentiment Analysis

Here is the guideline: Sentiment Analysis Using Excel Here is the file for … [More...]

ICE 12.1 Manually Determining the Sentiment of Text Data

Here is the ICE details: ICE 12.1 Manually Determining the Sentiment of … [More...]

ICE 11.2 Working with Pivot Tables in Tableau

Here is the guideline: ICE 11.2 Working with Pivot Tables in Tableau Here … [More...]

ICE 11.1 Creating a Database

Here is the guideline: ICE 11.1 Creating a Database This is not graded … [More...]

[More Announcements...]

Great Data Sites

  • FiveThirtyEight
  • Philly Open Data
  • Data Gov
  • Guardian Data Blog
  • Flowing Data
  • Financial Times Data Blog
  • Our World in Data
  • Pew Research Data
  • Reddit / Data is Beautiful

COURSE INFO

Section 001
Class Days: T/TH
Class Time: 12:30 - 1:50pm
Location: Alter 607
Section 005
Class Days: T/TH
Class Time: 2 - 3:20pm
Location: Alter 607

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