Specialization: Data Science Foundations: Data Structures and Algorithms Instructor: Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Assistant Professor Prior knowledge needed: Mathematical Background: We expect that the ...

Watch the 'Data Science Foundations: Data Structures & Algorithms Pathway' Video (5 min.) Master of Science in Data Science. Offered through an interdisciplinary partnership, data science at CU ...

Recommendation Systems: E-commerce platforms like Amazon and streaming services like Netflix use data science algorithms to recommend products, movies or shows to users based on their past behavior.

Mathematician Cathy O'Neil, author of the book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy," founded an algorithm consulting company last year to help ...

Algorithms are informed by our own prejudices, beliefs and blind spots — all the way from the design of the algorithm itself, to the data it is inputted with. Bad data in equals bad data out.