10-821 Data Analysis Project Preparation

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed to help students gain a number of abilities in terms of developing a research project centered around acquiring and using realworld data, vetting that data, and forging and executing a wellfounded research report. Elements of the course include formulating a clear research hypothesis or problem statement determining the best approach to solving that problem getting an indepth understanding of the data and their source using appropriate experimental and dataanalysis methods becoming acquainted with a literature that may be unfamiliar performing a proper literature survey reformulating the problem as the research develops working effectively with other scientistsresearchers making the research reproducible and communicating results, both orally and in writing. Students should have a data set in hand.

Prerequisites: none listed

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