UO Data Acquisition and Wrangling
Undergraduate
Course aim
To design ingestion mechanisms from existing databases that prepare data for further analysis.
Course content
Topics covered in this course include: different data types and formats; regular expressions; web scraping; data exploration, visualisation and preliminary analysis, data profiling and exploratory data analysis; data quality verification, missing data analysis; data wrangling; data cleansing; filtering; sampling; normalisation; visualisations.
Textbooks
Nil
Prerequisites
Subject Area & Catalogue Number | Course Name |
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Group 1
Students must complete one of the following courses |
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INFT 1032 | UO Data Driven Web Technologies |
INFS 1025 | Data Driven Web Technologies |
Corequisite(s)
Nil
Teaching Method
Component | Duration | ||
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EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY | |||
Online | 10 weeks x N/A |
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.
Assessment
Programming exercise, Proposal, Report
Fees
EFTSL*: 0.125
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation