PROGRAMMING FOR DATA SCIENCE

(DSC551)
DR NIK NUR FATIN FATIHAH BINTI SAPRI
College of Computing, Informatics and Media
UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor
Office: S3-30, CS1, KPPIM
 COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

 Apply Python and R programming to analyse both numerical and
text-based data.
 Construct simple computer scripts using structured approach.
 Demonstrate data analysis in R
 Perform data analysis in Python
 SYLLABUS CONTENT

 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
 CHAPTER 2: Component of Python Programming Language PYTHON
 CHAPTER 3: Control Structure PROGRAMMING
 CHAPTER 4: Functions and scripts
 CHAPTER 5: R Programming
R PROGRAMMING
 CHAPTER 6: Data Analysis with R
R PROGRAMMING

 -INTRODUCTION TO R
 -DATA STRUCTURE IN R
 -DATA MANAGEMENT IN R
 DATA VISUALIZATION
 -DATA ANALYSIS IN R
 FUNCTIONS IN R
 RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION
 ASSESSMENTS

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
 Written Test 1 (PYTHON): 15%
30%
 Lab Test 1 (PYTHON) : 15%
 Written Test 2 (R) : 15%
30%
 Lab Test 2 (R) : 15%

FINAL ASSESSMENT
 Final Exam (PYTHON AND R):40%
 RECOMMENDED TEXTS

 Lee, Kent D., Python: programming fundamentals (2011)

 Peng, R.D., R Programming For data Science (2014)