CS 124 - Introduction to Data Processing with Scripting

4.0 Credits
Introduction to performing data analysis tasks by writing code in a scripting language. Tasks include, ingesting data in various formats, using existing libraries to clean, organize and manipulate data and using programming constructs to accomplish project-specific tasks.
Prerequisite Admission into the Data Analytics Certificate (Beginner/Early Career) program or permission from the instructor.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Compose code in a scripting language to ingest data files in various formats (such R or Python)
Useexisting libraries such as pandas and dataframe concepts, cleannumerical andcategorical data including imputation of missing values.
Design and formulate techniques to store andmanipulate data using common data structures, conditionals, loops, and built-in functions.
Write basic custom functions for repeatable analysis.

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