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CS-5046: 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: CS-5045

Required By: CS-5124, CS-5854

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 4

Average GPA: 3.84 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 90.20%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Liqing Zhang202392.5%3.3%0.0%0.0%4.2%0.0%3.783
John E Wenskovitch2024100.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%4.001

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