Special Topics in Information Science: Data Wrangling

Program: MSIS/PhD
Course Areas
General Information Studies Elective
Archival Science/Preservation/Records Management
Data Science/Engineering/Analytics
Library Science/Librarianship
Human Computer Interaction/UX Design/UX Research

Catalog Description

An introduction to working with data - reading a variety of formats, designing a database schema, and introductory programming skills for inserting, querying, and transforming of data.

Instructor Description

Learning key data wrangling maneuvers in abstract and implementations in SQL, Excel, R Tidyverse, and Python Pandas. Maneuvers in data transformations include Nest, Pivot, Mutate (inc. separate/unite), Group/Summarize and Rectangling. Projects include working with "wild caught" data datasets (usually CSV or JSON) and computational notebook environments (e.g., iPython, Jupyter, Rmarkdown, Quarto). Fall 2024 has changes from previous syllabus now that we have Database Design and Introduction to Programming. Nonetheless, the previous syllabus is still useful as it links to course materials that show the teaching approach and type of assignments. http://howisonlab.github.io/datawrangling/#Schedule_of_classes

Prerequisites

Graduate standing.

Skills and Knowledge
Working With Data
data Transformations
data Analysis
Topics and Concepts
SQL
Python Pandas
R Tidyverse

Scheduled and Upcoming Classes for this Course

Class Name Semester Day(s) Start Time(s) End Time(s) Building Room
INF 385T.09: Special Topics in Information Science: Data Wrangling

James Howison Syllabus

Fall Term 2025
  • Thursday
  • 9:30 am
  • 12:30 pm
  • UTA
  • 1.208

Past Classes for this Course

Class Name Semester Day(s) Start Time(s) End Time(s) Building Room
INF 385T.09: Special Topics in Information Science: Data Wrangling

James Howison Syllabus

Fall Term 2024
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • 01:30 PM
  • 02:00 PM
  • 03:00 PM
  • 03:30 PM
  • UTA
  • UTA
  • 1.208
  • 1.208
INF 385T.09: Special Topics in Information Science: Data Wrangling

James Howison Syllabus

Fall Term 2023
  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • 01:30 PM
  • 02:00 PM
  • 03:00 PM
  • 03:30 PM
  • UTA
  • UTA
  • 1.208
  • 1.208
INF 385T.09: Special Topics in Information Science: Data Wrangling

James Howison Syllabus

Spring Term 2022
  • Tuesday
  • Thursday
  • 11:00 AM
  • 11:00 AM
  • 12:30 PM
  • 12:30 PM
  • UTA
  • UTA
  • 1.208
  • 1.208