The
College of Behavioral and Social Sciences wants to offer you the opportunity to
gain important data science skills
and earn elective credit. By building your resume with these valuable skills,
you will become more marketable to employers.
REGISTER
NOW FOR BSOS330: Programming for the Social Sciences: Statistical
Computing Using R (Fall 2018)
Course Description: R is an
open-source programming language, specialized for statistical computing, and
provides a variety of statistical and graphical techniques that might be
relevant for any BSOS program, such descriptive statistics, linear and
non-linear regression, text mining, image processing. The R language is
increasingly often employed in advanced statistics and data analytics, offering
a wide range of application packages for effective programming. This course
introduces the R language and several powerful packages in form of lectures,
worked-out examples, and group exercises. Instructor: Franz Klein. Course
meets Mondays 4-6pm in LEF 0229. Open to all BSOS majors. 1-credit.
**ECON-BA majors may use this course for 2 credits of their experiential learning requirement. Please contact an ECON advisor to have your audit updated and to discuss options to complete the last 1 credit of this requirement.
