| Course Title: Data Science and Society: Who, What, Where, Why, and How? |
| Start Date: 09/07/2022 End Date: 12/20/2022 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2022 |
| Description: Advances in computing allow entities in business and government to gather and analyze data in increasingly large quantities. We will try to understand what data science is, why it matters, and what knowledge is needed by consumers and practitioners of data science. We will look at case studies drawn from science, industry, and government and use these to discuss the societal impacts and ethical issues that should be on the minds of data scientists. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Jessica Sidman | 413-538-3251 | jsidman@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/07/2022 - 12/20/2022 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:30AM - 11:45AM | CLAP - Clapp Laboratory | 420 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 5 | Enrollment: 16 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Doing Data Science Author: O'Neil, Cathy, and Rachel Schutt Copyright: 2013 Edition: 1 Volume: ISBN: 9781449358655 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc |
Optional | 26.30 |
| Title: Weapons of Math Destruction Author: O'Neil, Cathy Copyright: 2016 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780553418811 Publisher: Crown |
Optional | 14.39 |
| Title: They Say I Say: the moves that matter in academic writing Author: Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein Copyright: 2021 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
Optional | 16.00 |
| Title: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge,... Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 1571313567 Publisher: Milkweed |
Optional | 18.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: We'll be reading about a chapter of each of the texts. Braiding SweetGrass and Doing Data Science are available online through the MHC library, so you do not need to buy them if you are comfortable with e-versions of the books. All of the texts will be on reserve at the library so you can also just photocopy the chapter that we are using for class. |