Data Science Minor

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Enhance your major with a Data Science Minor

Data is being generated at high speed, in large volumes, and by a variety of systems around the world. In such a data-driven and information-centric world, the ability to analyze information and make informed decisions is crucial to every field including business, medicine, the sciences, entertainment, and government.

You will develop the ability to effectively apply discipline knowledge to solve real-world problems, adapt as the field changes, and make ethical decisions. The curriculum provides the foundations of team skills and allows you to improve their interpersonal skills and professional attitudes. You will have an opportunity to participate in an internship and in undergraduate research.

A laptop computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux is required for courses in the Computer Science program. A Chromebook will not work.

Check Out the Different Computer Science Courses Waiting for you at Worcester State
MA-150 Statistics I
Descriptive techniques, elementary probability, distribution of the sample mean, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing of the means of one and two samples, linear regression and correlation.
3 credits
CS-131 Data Visualization and Statistical Analysis
The course focuses on basic data visualization methods; basic statistical analysis; use of R; current visualization and statistical analysis tools.
3 credits
CS-141 Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
The course focuses on basic data cleaning and preprocessing tasks, basic methods to perform them; methods to generalize and summary data.
3 credits
CS-265 Database Applications
This course introduces basic database concepts and teaches how to create and manage a database; relational databases, use SQL; NoSQL databases.
3 credits
CS-234 Data Mining for Non-CS Majors
This course introduces basic data mining problems and methods to solve them: classification, numerical prediction, clustering, association rule mining.
3 credits
SO-275 Social and Behavioral Statistics
Data tabulation; graphing; measurement of central tendency, variability, and correlation; hypothesis testing applied to psychological and sociological data. Hand and computer analysis.
3 credits
CS-383 Cloud, Parallel, and Distributed Computing
The course introduces basics of cloud computing and fundamental computing technologies used for big data platforms such as parallel, distributed computing.
3 credits
UR-230 Technology, Public Policy and Urban Society
Examination of high-technology and its impact on urban society in areas such as provacy, ethics, intellectual property rights, sense of community, and access to information and services.
3 credits
PH-134 Computing Ethics
An introduction to significant issues in the ethics of computing, including the application of ethical theories to the development of technology, cyberculture, and artificial intelligence, as well as some distinct ethical theories that emerge from thinking about computing and information technology.
3 credits

See the diverse career paths a minor in Data Science can prepare you for

There are countless career paths for data science students in a variety of fields.

Computer Programmer
Hardware Engineer
Software Developer
IT Architect
Database Administrator
Systems Manager
Web Developer
Software Engineer
Security Analyst
Health Information Technician
Information Researcher
Network Administrator
Web Designer
Systems Analyst
Video Game Developer
Data Scientist

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