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CS-5045: Computation for the Data Sciences

Description: Covers fundamentals of computer science and background in data sciences needed by graduate students without a computer science background. 5045: Programming language syntax and semantics for data science; abstraction and object-oriented programming; data structures; databases; visualization; ethics and data manipulation. 5046: Software engineering; data preprocessing; and machine learning. Pre: Graduate standing for 5045; 5045 for 5046.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: ADS-5804, CS-5054, CS-5046

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 3.89 (rounds to A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 77.77%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Liqing Zhang202491.7%7.5%0.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.864
Lenwood S Heath2020100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.981
John E Wenskovitch202392.9%7.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.921

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