Courses - Spring 2026
INST
Information Studies
Open Seats as of
03/10/2026 at 10:30 PM
INST447
Data Sources and Manipulation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in STAT100 and INST327; and a minimum grade of C- from one of the following: (INST201, INST301, BSOS233); and a minimum grade of C- from one of the following: (AASP101, ANTH210, ANTH260, ECON200, ECON201, GEOG202, GVPT170, PSYC100, SOCY100, or SOCY105); and a minimum grade of C- from one of the following: (AASP210, ECON230, GEOG306, GVPT201, INST314, PSYC200, or SOCY201); and a minimum grade of C- from one of the following: (BSOS326, INST326).
Restriction: Must be in Information Science or Social Data 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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University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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