Introduction to Data Science and Analytics (DSA)

ITEC 4230 Data Science and Analytics Project,
Anca Doloc-Mihu and Cengiz Gunay

(License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Welcome

Logistics heads-up:

  • Using Piazza for forum discussion and Q&A support
  • Using Discord and Github organizations with previous members
  • Everything online this semester, will meet on live video on Zoom

Meaning:

  • Bigger community, can see what others are doing
  • Can see results of their research, answers to questions
  • Can even collaborate with projects?
  • Any problems, potential issues?

Meet your instructor

Instructor: Anca Doloc-Mihu

Email: adolocmihu@ggc.edu

Office: Virtual and W-2208 (by appointment)

Phone: 678-459-8704

About the instructor: Dr. Anca Doloc-Mihu

  • Dual major in Mathematics and Computer Science
  • In 2007, got a PhD in Computer Science on Information Retrieval
  • 2007–17, worked as post-doctoral fellow at Emory Univ. on simulating models of biological neurons and large-scale biological data mining (e.g., SQL, neural nets, genetic algos)
  • 2013–17, Visiting Faculty teaching at Emory Univ., Math & CS Dept.
  • Fall 2017–present, IT faculty at GGC with Soft. Dev. focus and also helped start a Data Science and Analytics major

Your turn!

  • Login/register on discussion and respond to the “Introductions” topic; create an inline resume

Also quickly introduce yourself now in class!

  • Name
  • Major/Year
  • Interest/experience in programming

What’s happening?

Welcome Advanced Analytics students

  • Projects, working with external clients (mostly GGC faculty/students)
  • 3 phases of project work, peer review in each with dire consequences…
  • Few small assignments
  • Few team presentations
  • Individual presentations for team role, article, and/or software tool

Tool/article presentations

Throughout semester I’ll let you research topics so we all learn more about options out there:

  • Each student will pick one item in any of the topics by a given deadline
  • You will give a presentation in class and post your summary
  • After everyone presents for one topic, we discuss in class

Topics will be posted later, but will include:

  • Tools: Frontend frameworks (jQuery, Bootstrap, …), Project tracking tools (JIRA, Trello, Pivotal Tracker, Rally, Version One, …), Database engines (MySQL, PostGreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, …)
  • Articles: Influential articles, novel technologies, arguments, career topics, etc.

Syllabus and hands on work

  • Let’s look through the syllabus
    • Message in a bottle for you

Time to work on:

  1. Register for Discord, Github, and Piazza
  2. Respond to resume on Piazza
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