Lecture overview

• Introductions
• Class survey
• Why learn data science?
• Syllabus and class website

About me

• Prof. Mason Stahl
• Department of Geology and ESPE
• Office: Olin 102A
• Email: stahlm@union.edu

My research is on hydrogeology and water resources. I work in Vietnam, Upstate NY, and Bangladesh.

Have you heard of…

• R
• RStudio
• DataCamp
• Data Science
• Big Data

About you

• Name
• Year
• Major
• Anything else you’d like to share

Why learn data science?

Our class

Summary info about the students in our class

Class composition by year

Class composition by major

What we’ve heard of