MSAN 692 - Data Acquisition

Credits: 2

Analysts spend the majority of their time just collecting data and contorting it into an appropriate or convenient form for analysis. In this course, students write programs to scrape data from websites such as Yahoo finance and you use REST APIs to extract data from Twitter. Topics also include log file filtering, table merging, data cleaning, and data reorganization.

Restriction: Restricted to Graduate level; Restricted to Analytics Majors SC