1. Data Science – ITEC/CSCI/ERTH-4350/6350
Definitions, History of Data (and Information), Data Science, Current Challenges
Peter Fox
Data Science – ITEC/CSCI/ERTH-4350/6350
Module 1, September 5, 2017

2. Admin info (keep/ print this slide)
Class: ITWS/CSCI/ERTH-4350/6350
Instructor: Peter Fox
Instructor contact:
Contact hours: Monday** 3:00-4:00pm (or by appt)
Contact location: Winslow 2120/ Lally 207A
TA: Eliyah Afzal -
Web site:
This course is in “Blended” format – low residency
Online/ asynchrnous
LMS ( 1709_Data Science [1709_ITWS_CSCI_ERTH_6350_4350_00])
Adobe Connect
Synchronous hours: 3pm-5:50pm Tuesday
Synchronous Location: Lally 102 Troy campus

3. Contents
Please review slides ~ 3 – 73 from (login required) or (no login required)
AND watch/ listen to or (Adobe Connect login as guest)
Ignore slides that are specific to 2016 course

4. Current Syllabus/Schedule
Module1: History of Data and Information, Data, Information, Knowledge Concepts and State-of-the-Art
Module 2: Data and information acquisition (curation, preservation) and metadata - management
Module 3: Data formats, metadata standards, conventions, reading and writing data and information
Module 4: Data Analysis I
Module 5: Class exercise - collecting data - individual
Module 6: Class Presentations: present your data (3-4 groups)
no classes on the Tuesday after Columbus day – Tuesday follows Monday schedule
Module 7: Data Analysis II and Class exercise - group project - working with someone else's data
Module 8: Introduction to Data Mining for Data Science, Data Quality, Uncertainty and Bias
Module 9: Data as Service Paradigms and Data Infrastructures
Module 10: Data Workflow Management, Preservation and Data Stewardship
Module 11: Academic basis for Data Science, Data Models, Schema, Markup Languages
Module 12: Webs of Data and Data on the Web, the Deep Web, Data Discovery, Data Integration, Data Citation
Module 13: Final Project Presentations

5. Questions so far?
There is a discussion forum on LMS for Module 1 – please post questions there and watch for answers

6. Introductions
Listen to the video recording for 2016 to hear about last years students
Blog posts on LMS under “Introductions” – enter your responses (text or record voice/ video) – just a few minutes
Who you are, background?
Why you are here?
What you expect to learn?

7. Next start at Slide 13 in 2016 recording/ and the slide deck through to end Complete readings for week 1