IS 407

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Introduction to Data Science

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Credit: 4 hours.

This course introduces students to data science approaches that have emerged from recent advances in programming and computing technology. They will learn to collect and use data from a variety of sources, including the web, in a modern statistical inference and visualization paradigm. The course will be based in the programming language R, but will also use HTML, regular expressions, basic unix tools, XML, and SQL. Supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques made possible by recent advances in computing power will also be covered.

4 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

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IS 407 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
72065	Lecture-Discussion	ACG	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	13 Sch of Info Sciences Bldg	Liu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Section Info: Go to https://go.ischool.illinois.edu/CourseRegistrationRestrictions for information on enrollment restrictions. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
72134	Lecture-Discussion	ACU	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	13 Sch of Info Sciences Bldg	Liu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Section Info: Junior or Senior standing or above. Go to https://go.ischool.illinois.edu/CourseRegistrationRestrictions for information on enrollment restrictions. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. Questions may be sent to bsis-advising@illinois.edu. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
74723	Lecture-Discussion	BG	11:00AM -12:20PM	WF	13 Sch of Info Sciences Bldg	Besser, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Section Info: Meets in iSchool room 13. Go to https://go.ischool.illinois.edu/CourseRegistrationRestrictions for information on enrollment restrictions. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
74724	Lecture-Discussion	BU	11:00AM -12:20PM	WF	13 Sch of Info Sciences Bldg	Besser, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Degree Notes: ONL Info Science rate course. Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Meets in iSchool classroom 13. Junior or Senior standing or above. Go to https://go.ischool.illinois.edu/CourseRegistrationRestrictions for information on enrollment restrictions. For more information about this major, please visit: http://go.ischool.illinois.edu/BSIS. Questions may be sent to bsis-advising@illinois.edu. Restriction(s): Not intended for students with Freshman or Sophomore class standing. Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.