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ADS-5804: Capstone Experience I: Definition and Data

Description: Application of underlying principles and initial phases of the data science process to a specific project. Problem definition, writing questions to be addressed through data analysis, identification of available data sources, project feasibility, evaluation of adequacy and quality of data sources for addressing the project questions, data preparation and cleaning, preliminary exploratory data analysis, reproducible analysis, ethical aspects including fairness/bias, communication with non-data scientists.

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Course Hours: 1 credit

Prerequisites: ADS-5224 and CS-5045

Required By: ADS-5814

Corequisites: STAT-5526 or CS-5526.

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Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 0

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