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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-5046, CS-5054

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 19

Average GPA: 3.77 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 65.77%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Liqing Zhang202280.6%18.0%1.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.7614
Lenwood S Heath202090.0%10.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.883
John E Wenskovitch202392.9%7.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.921
Denis Gracanin201137.5%62.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.491

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