Data Science Courses

DATA 180 - Undergraduate Seminar in Data Science (1)

A seminar primarily for students undertaking a major or an honours program in Data Science. Prerequisite: Major or honours in Data Science or permission of the program director. Students with credit for DATA (or MSSC) 480 cannot receive credit for DATA (or MSSC) 180.

DATA 260 - Introductory R for Data Science (3)

An introduction to the R programming language for data science. Exploring data: visualization, transformation and summaries. Data wrangling: reading, tidying, and data types. No prior computer programming experience required. Prerequisite: One of STAT 201, STAT 203, STAT 205, STAT 270, STAT 271, BUS 232, ECON 233, or POL 201, with a grade of at least C- or permission of the instructor. Students who have taken STAT 341 or STAT 360 first may not then take this course for further credit. Students with credit for STAT 260 may not take this course for further credit.