STKD6510 Data Science for Social Innovations II Emneplan

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One half year of university studies (30 ECTS), in addition to the international summer school's general requirement. The requirement needs to be met by 1 March.

After completing this course the student should have the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course the student has leading knowledge of:

• the potential of data analytics for solving different real-life problems
• the core principles of data analytics (machine learning, statistics)
• the main components of data analytics from infrastructure/technical perspectives
• the visualization techniques to understand and/or communicate data and findings
• programming languages applicable to data analytics including, for example, SQL, Python, Matlab, R, or SPSS

Skills

On successful completion of this course the student has a progressive ability to:

• apply data analytics techniques to formulate a hypothesis, collect data, analyze it and reach conclusions about the data
• critically draw conclusions from different sources of data
• plan and design a real-world data analytics application
• analyze real-world data by building an app with a real-world application
• clearly identify and define a problem and craft a solution using data analytics
• construct a data analytics solution from a set of general requirements such as organizational goals or user scenarios.
• synthesize primary and secondary data sources the ability to accurately pinpoint trends, correlations and patterns in complex data sets
• identify new opportunities for organizational change including process improvements, cost reduction or efficiency improvements.

General Competence

On successful completion of this course the student is proficient and can master:

• data analytics principles
• methods/tools for data analytics and data visualization
• using data analytics to solve real-world problems
• data analytics visualizations in presentations

The course comprises 40 hours of language instruction (4 hours * 10 weeks) organized as whole class instruction.

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• Oral examination of a group project, which counts for 60% of the grade.
• A 4,000 to 6,000-word group project report, which counts for 40% of the grade

Each group may consist of 2-5 candidates.

Oral presentations cannot be appealed.

Both exams must be passed in order to pass the course.

The final assessment will be graded on a grading scale from A to E (A is the highest grade and E the lowest) and F for fail.

Two internal examiners will be used.