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
• Machine Learning
• Big Data

About you

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

What is data science/analytics?

Why learn data science?

Our class

Summary info about the students in our class

Where we are from

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Class composition by year

Class composition by major

What we’ve heard of