CT 6540 - Python for Data Science and Analytics

Data analysts use business data from sources ranging from online dating, health care, transportation, industry, nuclear science, and many more to generate insights about populations and processes. Data analysis can be used to enhance productivity and increase profits, target medicines and treatments, optimize resource utilization, fight climate change, improve food production, and much more. Students will learn to understand and apply the foundational concepts and methodologies that constitute data analytics from basic statistics to data visualization to machine learning for descriptive and predictive purposes. This program prepares students to work across diverse industries and organizations. Credits: 4 Students cannot take both CT 6535 Python and Data Analytics and CT 6540 Python for Data Science and Analytics for credit.