BSOS631

Prerequisite: Students must have completed a least one college-level statistics course. Restriction: Must be enrolled in a BSOS major; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with: BSOS331. Jointly offered with: BSOS331. Credit only granted for: BSOS331 or BSOS631. Python has become the most powerful programming language in advanced statistics and data analytics. It includes expansive packages for data handling and processing, including the latest developments in machine learning, and offers Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for code development, testing, debugging, and graphical representation. In addition, python is deployed on virtually all high performance computing clusters, taking advantage of multi-processing, large memory, and GPU enhanced computing environments. This course offers a thorough introduction to python and those packages that are fundamental to data processing and analysis, image processing, natural language processing, machine learning.