| Course ID: | INFO 8000. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | Foundations of Informatics for Research and Practice |
Course
Description: | This interdisciplinary course provides instruction and exposure
to the theory, tools, and techniques that connect data to
information, knowledge, and decisions. Students will gain the
knowledge and skills necessary to deeply engage in the
increasingly interdisciplinary, data-driven, security-focused
industrial and research enterprises as they complete practical
analytical tasks and projects. |
| Oasis Title: | Informatics Foundations |
| Prerequisite: | Permission of major |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | 1. Manage, manipulate, and visualize data of all common types
2. Identify data challenges in real-world applications
3. Design a data-driven decision process to fulfill research or
business needs
4. Implement data-to-information pipelines using visual
programming and scripting
5. Visualize data and information for analytics and communication
6. Use computational tools to work on analytics problems
collaboratively
7. Prepare and present results from informatics applications and
research |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Data Dimensions and Types
2. Local and Networked Data Storage and Retrieval, Real-time data
streams
3. Structured and Unstructured Data, Meta-Data
4. Data Visualization
5. Visual Analytics
6. Data processing tools and techniques
7. System and Process Modelling
8. Regression and Classification
9. Machine Learning and Decision Making
10. Information Visualization
Topics will be covered in context with modern, real-world
challenges, such as national security, education, health, food
production, and environmental issues, that highlight the
cross-cutting nature of informatics knowledge and skills. |
| Honor Code Reference: | UGA Student Honor Code: "I will be academically honest in all of
my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of
others." A Culture of Honesty, the University's policy and
procedures for handling cases of suspected dishonesty, can be
found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. |