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2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

CECS 181 - Introduction to Data Science

(3 units)

Prerequisite/Corequisite: CECS 174.

Fundamental course for Data Science and its applications. The course includes principles in collecting, managing, and analyzing data. Main topics include data loading, cleaning, visualization, EDA, data distribution and practical statistics for data science.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hours) Not repeatable for credit.