INST447

Data Sources and Manipulation

Prerequisite: 1 course with a minimum grade of C- from (INST201, INST301); and minimum grade of C- in INST126, INST327, STAT100, MATH115, and PSYC100; and 1 course with a minimum grade of C- from (INST326, CMSC131). Restriction: Must be in Information Science program. Examines approaches to locating, acquiring, manipulating, and disseminating data. Imperfection, biases, and other problems in data are examined, and methods for identifying and correcting such problems are introduced. The course covers other topics such as automated collection of large data sets, and extracting, transforming, and reformatting a variety of data and file types.

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.37 between 1,559 students*

INST447 Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 17.25%
A: 22.51%
A+: 24.89%
B-: 4.43%
B: 8.34%
B+: 9.75%
C-: 1.73%
C: 2.18%
C+: 2.63%
D-: 0.19%
D: 0.26%
D+: 0.26%
F: 1.8%
W: 3.59%
other: 0.19%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.