Information Science
IS 2000: Principles of Information Science
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Introduces information science.
- Examines how information is used to solve problems both for individuals and organizations and how information systems interface with their users.
- Considers the technical, economic, social, and ethical issues that arise when working with information.
- Discusses how to collect, manage, classify, store, encode, transmit, retrieve, and evaluate data and information with appropriate security and privacy.
- Storage models include lists, tables, and trees (hierarchies).
- Examines applications of information: visualization, presentation, categorization, decision making, and predictive modeling.
- Introduces key concepts in probability.
- Explains Bayesian analysis for information classification and modeling.
- Teaches intensive programming in Excel, including VBA macro development.
- Introduces programming in R.
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