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CS1951a Introduction to Data Science

This collection highlights student research conducted in CS1951a Introduction to Data Science, taught by Dr. Tim Kraska. The course provides students with an overview of the wide area of data science, with a particular focus on the tools required to store, clean, manipulate, visualize, model, and ultimately extract information from large amounts of data. Course topics include:

  • Data integration
  • Data modeling in Python
  • Large-scale processing tools: Hadoop and Spark
  • Relational models and SQL
  • Text/Web clustering and classification
  • Text indexing
  • Scaling of ML algorithms
  • Visualization with D3
  • Specialized data management systems

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2016 Bias finder final project report

Year:
2016
Contributor:
Zhang, Dazheng (author)
Yang, John (author)
Johnson, Paul (author)
Shu, Kevin (author)
Friedmann, John Joe (author)
Genre:
reports
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Data-driven analysis of Society for Neuroscience (SfN) abstracts

Description:
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting is the largest conference for neuroscience research. The popularity and diversity of neuroscience, however, leads to two problems …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Guan, Shaobo (author)
Xia, Ruobing (author)
Wortsman, Mitchell (author)
Young, Justin (author)
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Neurosciences
Big data
Data mining
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Data-driven analysis of Society for Neuroscience (SfN) abstracts final report

Year:
2016
Contributor:
Guan, Shaobo (author)
Xia, Ruobing (author)
Wortsman, Mitchell (author)
Young, Justin (author)
Genre:
reports
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

A Facebook analysis final report

Year:
2016
Contributor:
Chao, Hilery (author)
Semaya, Isaac (author)
Xu, Michael (author)
Genre:
reports
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Mr. Sick Beats: a music recommendation engine

Description:
In an era where digital content is ubiquitous and easily accessible, the success of a platform relies upon its ability to "hook" the user by …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Thakore, Shreena (author)
Perez, Valentin (author)
Martinez-Chapa, Miguel (author)
Karagounis, Andreas (author)
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Music > Computer network resources
Recommender systems (Information filtering)
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

mStats

Description:
A form of personalized big data that most people already have is in their Facebook messages. We decided to build a toolkit, called "mStats" for …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Chao, Hilery (author)
Semaya, Isaac (author)
Xu, Michael (author)
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Facebook (Electronic resource)
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Political bias in online news

Description:
The purpose of this project was to determine the bias of news sources. It was predicted that some sites would have preferences towards or against …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Zhang, Dazheng (author)
Yang, John (author)
Johnson, Paul (author)
Shu, Kevin (author)
Friedmann, John Joe (author)
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Mass media > Objectivity
News Web sites
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Refugeemotions: analyzing attitudes towards refugees

Description:
We analyzed the data of the movements of asylum seekers and correlated this with a country's sentiment towards refugees. We used data from the United …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Hwang, Alan (author)
Storey-Fisher, Kate (author)
Dallas, Sam (author)
Trivedi, Tara Basu (author)
Genre:
posters
Subject:
Refugees
Intergroup relations
Twitter
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Sick Beats : fun with friends finale

Year:
2016
Contributor:
Thakore, Shreena (author)
Perez, Valentin (author)
Martinez-Chapa, Miguel (author)
Karagounis, Andreas (author)
Genre:
reports
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

Visualizing the migration of refugees final report

Year:
2016
Contributor:
Hwang, Alan (author)
Storey-Fisher, Kate (author)
Dallas, Sam (author)
Trivedi, Tara Basu (author)
Genre:
reports
Collection:
Data Science Initiative
CS1951a Introduction to Data Science
Full Record

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