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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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Getting Tableau Desktop

We’ll be using Tableau Desktop a lot during this course. You can get a full copy of the software – PC or Mac – for free!

o download and activate your software:

  1. Go to the landing page, download and install
  2. Agree to the terms
  3. Copy your Tableau Key from the email from your instructor and paste it in.
  4. You may have to fill in some information (use your temple.edu email address if asked)

Tableau’s site has a series of quick start guides and video-based training. If you want to do something that we don’t cover in class, check there.

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Recent Announcements

  • Final Exam Reminder
  • Study Guide for Exam 3 (Final Exam)
  • 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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