Credit Points 10

Legacy Code 301113

Coordinator Franco Ubaudi Opens in new window

Description The use of computers and computer programming for Data Science is fundamental to the discipline. This introductory subject will briefly cover the use of spreadsheet systems and then will consider programming in the statistical system "R" in detail. Other special purpose languages will also be touched on briefly including SQL (Structured Query Language).

School Computer, Data & Math Sciences

Discipline Computer Science

Student Contribution Band HECS Band 2 10cp

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Level Postgraduate Coursework Level 7 subject

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Use Excel to manage and manipulate data.
2. Extract, transform and load data using R and R-Studio; including reading and writing data files.
3. Create complex R programs to conduct Data Science tasks.
4. Use basic SQL to access databases.
5. Apply simulation techniques to Data Science tasks.
6. Create reports using Markdown and R-Markdown.

Subject Content

1. Use of Spreadsheets for Data Science
2. Introduction to R and R-Studio
3. Data Types, Variables , Expressions, and Data Structures
4. Input and Output
5. Control Structures: Loops, ,Conditional Expressions, and Functions
6. Simulation techniques
7. Object-oriented programming in R
8. Introduction to SQL
9. Using Markdown for reporting