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Current Semester (Fall 2024)

DATA 202-01 - Ethics in Data Science

  Catalog Description: This course provides an introduction to critical, ethical, and moral issues surrounding data and society. It blends social and technological perspectives on data with ethics, policy, and case examples. We will explore a broad range of topic — from Algorithmic Bias to Interpretability in Machine Learning — to help students develop a workable understanding of current ethical issues in data science. Moreover, the course examines the ethical questions and dilemmas that arise in the development of technologies that affect the lives of peoples. Students will debate issues surrounding bias, privacy, surveillance, discrimination, and transparency, throughout the development life cycle of applications – from dataset generation to model development and evaluation. Read more

DATA 440-07 - Web Science

  Catalog Description: The Web has fundamentally changed how we learn, play, communicate, and work. Its influence has become so monumental that it has given birth to a new science: Web Science, or the science of decentralized information structures. Although Web Science is interdisciplinary by nature, this course will be focus mainly on the computing aspects of the Web. Provides an overview of the World Wide Web and associated decentralized information structures, focusing mainly on the computing aspects of the Web: how it works, how it is used, and how it can be analyzed. Students will examine a number of topics including: web architecture, web characterization and analysis, web archiving, Web 2.0, social networks, (creating/detecting) social bots, collective intelligence, search engines, web mining, information diffusion on the web, Semantic Web, etc. Read more

DATA 691-03 - Web Science

  Catalog Description: The Web has fundamentally changed how we learn, play, communicate, and work. Its influence has become so monumental that it has given birth to a new science: Web Science, or the science of decentralized information structures. Although Web Science is interdisciplinary by nature, this course will be focus mainly on the computing aspects of the Web. Provides an overview of the World Wide Web and associated decentralized information structures, focusing mainly on the computing aspects of the Web: how it works, how it is used, and how it can be analyzed. Students will examine a number of topics including: web architecture, web characterization and analysis, web archiving, Web 2.0, social networks, (creating/detecting) social bots, collective intelligence, search engines, web mining, information diffusion on the web, Semantic Web, etc. Read more

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