Technical Foundations

INFO 498F
What?
How?
Why?
{what?}
Learned the technical skills and tools necessary for working with information
Wrote code
# Your wrote lots of code in this class!
# Hopefully it doesn't look like nonsense anymore.
x <- 10
# But it's super powerful
square <- function(a) {
return (a*a)
}
# Everyone should know what y is....
y <- square(x)
Managed Code

Worked with Data


Largest changes in life exp. |
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Maldives (+42) |
Bhutan (+35) |
# You wrote code to do this!
Learned how to learn
{how?}
Lots of version control practice

Worked with different data sources

Asked questions about datasets

Built Data Exploration Applications

{how it will change}
{why?}

Discover

Communicate

Predict

Impact
{what comes next...?}
{anything you want!}
Expand your visualization skills
Expand your analysis skills
Problem solve without code
Study how to do design
Bring these skills to a different field

{thanks}
Up Next....
Final projects (due before class Friday)
Peer evaluation (due Monday)
See you Friday at 1:30 in MGH Commons!
closing
By Michael Freeman
closing
Final class
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