DSCI 200

Navigating Data: Acquisition, Exploration and Management

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Choose a data acquisition strategy and write reproducible scripts to read data.

  • Determine when data simulation is useful for analysis and plan appropriate simulations.

  • Identify and manage outliers and anomalies, reflecting on their impact on conclusions.

  • Address missing data, apply handling strategies, and assess their effect on conclusions.

  • Perform exploratory data analysis with statistical and visualization methods to generate hypotheses.

  • Evaluate the impact of measurement scales, units, and errors, and apply methods to minimize them.

  • Assess data privacy needs, apply techniques where necessary, and reflect on their impact.

  • Evaluate who owns the data in a given case.