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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

IA 241. Introduction to Programming and Data Science


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013644 Grading Basis GRD

The course introduces students to data analysis through computer programing. The course will focus on key elements from data science that are critical to the intelligence analyst such as manipulating, processing, cleaning and crunching data. The course will serve as a practical, modern introduction to scientific computing in Python, tailored for data-intensive applications. This course will introduce the Python language and libraries students need to effectively solve a broad set of data analysis problems. The course is hands-on and places emphasis on practical case studies with a broad scope of techniques useful for the data analyst. Prerequisite(s): IA 240 .