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Interactive Data Science

Course Information

Course Number

HCI Undergraduate: n/a
HCI Graduate: 05-839

Course Description

This course covers techniques and technologies for creating data driven interfaces. You will learn about the entire data pipeline from sensing to cleaning data to different forms of analysis and computation. 

Introduction

  • identifying the questions you want to answer
  • identifying the data required to answer the question
  • transforming data to answers

Collecting data

  • Sources to collect from: click, sensors, mobile phones, etc.
  • APIs for social web & OAUTH
  • Common data formats: XML, json, csv, …
  • Sampling and Bias in data collection

Cleaning data

  • Understanding your data
  • Data Quality: coherence, correctness, completeness and accountability
  • Common problems with data

Tools for analyzing data

  • Exploratory Analysis, Distributions and their meanings
  • Causality
  • Transformations and Features
  • Usable Machine Learning

Visualisation

  • What, why and how not to visualize
  • Perceptual issues in visualization
  • What makes a good visualization, narrative
  • Visualizing big data

Semester Offered and Units

Semester: Spring
Graduate: 12 units

Instructor(s)

John Stamper