Data Science is analyzing data to learn more about the world. The courses below may help you learn to analyze large amounts of data using data mining techniques and strong programming skills. As well as identify relevant questions, capture, process and analyze data from multiple sources to help answer the questions, and organize and communicate the results for effective decision making. 

  • CS 4700 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, fall and spring
  • CS 5320 Introduction to Database Systems, fall
  • CS 5412 Cloud Computing, spring
  • CS 5786 Machine Learning for Data Science, spring
  • INFO 4300 Language and Information, spring
  • INFO 4310 Interactive Information Visualization, spring
  • INFO 4555 Business Intelligence Systems, fall
  • INFO 5100 Visual Data Analytics for the Web, spring
  • INFO 5200 Introduction to Learning Analytics†, fall and spring
  • INFO 5306 Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, fall 
  • INFO 6240 Sensemaking: Theory and Practical Applications, fall
  • INFO 6300 Advanced Language Technologies, fall
  • INFO 6350 Text Mining History and Literature, fall
  • INFO 6850 The Structure of Information Networks, spring
  • ORIE 4740 Statistical Data Mining I, fall and spring
  • STSCI 4740 Data Mining and Machine Learning, fall
  • STSCI 5065 Big Data Management and Analysis, spring
  • INFO 4250 Surveillance and Privacy, spring
  • INFO 4270 Ethics and Policy in Data Science, fall
  • INFO 4301 Ethics in New Media, Technology, and Communication, fall
  • INFO 4360 Communication Networks and Social Capital, spring
  • INFO 4561 Stars, Scores, and Rankings: Evaluation and Society, spring
  • INFO 5200 Introduction to Learning Analytics†, fall and spring
  • INFO 6113 Technology and Law Colloquium, fall
  • INFO 6500 Language and Technology, fall
  • INFO 6710 Revolutions of the Mind: Media, Technology, and Epistemological Change, spring
  • PSYCH 6420 Human Perception, fall

​† These courses span both areas and may count toward either Information Systems or Human and Social Systems.