CAP3744 Data Analytics and Visualization

This course gives a broad overview of the various aspects of data analytics and visualizations. Students will learn ways of accessing data from various sources such as web APIs and repositories, techniques of cleaning data and organizing data for analysis, using analytical methods to solve real-world problems, and creating visualizations to aid the interpretation of analysis results. Students will have hands-on training using relevant programming languages, as well as analytics and visualization tools. Students will apply lessons learned and use tools trained to work on exploratory and descriptive data science projects.