CSC 280 - Data Systems, 3 credit hours

Prerequisite(s): CSC 210 or CSC 211 or CSC 212 any with a “C” or better.
The Data Systems course offers a broad view of data - its access, structure, storage, and representation. The course includes database systems as well as other sources of structured and unstructured data from tabular, spreadsheet-like files to unstructured data scrapes from various locations across the internet. The manipulation, cleaning, and representation of data to allow for the application of a variety of analytical tools and techniques is also discussed.