Applied Data Science Track

Customize your experience based on your goals

In addition to completing your core requirements and a capstone project, you’ll choose to focus on one of six different domain areas and complete two courses within that specific domain:

  • Augmented and Virtual Reality
  • Data security and privacy
  • Economic Data Analytics
  • Health and Biomedical
  • Human robot interaction
  • Social data science

A broad range of elective courses provide further opportunity to customize your degree.

Augmentedand Virtual Reality

  • INFO-I 590 Topic in Informatics
    • Topic: Artificial Life in Virtual Reality
    • Topic: Building Virtual Worlds
    • Topic: Creating Virtual Assets
    • Topic: Introduction to Virtual Reality

Data Security and Privacy

  • INFO-I 520 Security for Networked Systems
  • INFO-I 525 Organizational Informatics and Economics of Security
  • INFO-I 533 Systems and Protocol Security and Information Assurance
  • INFO-I 538 Introduction to Cryptography

Economic Data Analytics

  • ECON-M 504 Econometrics I
  • ECON-M 511 Microeconomic Theory II
  • ECON-M 514 Econometrics II
  • ECON-M 518 Econometrics: Big Data
  • ECON-M 524 Financial Econometrics

Health and Biomedical Data Science

  • INFO-I 507 Introduction to Health Informatics
  • INFO-I 519 Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • INFO-I 529 Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Human Robotic Interaction

  • CSCI-B 657 Computer Vision
  • ENGR-E 599 Topics in Intelligent Systems Engineering
    • Topic: Autonomous Robotics
  • INFO-I 513 Usable Artificial Intelligence
  • INFO-I 527 Mobile and Pervasive Design
  • INFO-I 540 Human Robot Interaction
  • INFO-I 542 Foundations of HCI

Social Data Science

  • ENGR-E 583 Information Visualization (may be counted only once)
  • ILS-Z 604 Topics in Library and Information Science
    • Topic: Music Data Mining
  • ILS-Z 639 Social Media Mining
  • INFO-I 513 Usable ArtificialIntelligence
  • INFO-I 590 Topics in Informatics
    • Topic: Data Visualization (may be counted only once)
  • INFO-I 606 Network Science (may be counted only once)