- Park City Math Institute (PCMI) Undergraduate Faculty Group Summer 2016
- Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Data Science
- Ben Baumer asked: "What if we blew up math, stats, CS, and all their legacies and started over? What would this field look like?"
February 16, 2017
PCMI
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Intro to Data Science I
Intro to Data Science I
Vision
- A complete 'alpha to omega' intro to Data Science.
- Students will engage in the full data workflow, from the initial investigation and data acquisition to the communication of results
- i.e. Grolemund/Wickham's full data/science pipeline
Learning Goals
- Exploring and wrangling data
- Writing basic functions and coding
- Summarizing, visualizing, and analyzing data
- Modeling and simulating deterministic and stochastic phenomena
- Presenting the results of a complete project in written, oral, and graphical forms