Data analysis is the practice of extracting information from databases.
I am the current Director of Queens College’s Minor Program in Data Analytics. I am a former Director and a dedicated faculty member in Queens College’s Graduate Program in Data Analytics.
In Spring 2024, I will teach two Data Analysis courses:
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Notes: Basic Data Wrangling Operations
March 5, 2024
Notes for the Data Wrangling module of my analytics courses.
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Notes: Describing Distributions and Relationships
February 13, 2024
Study notes on describing distributions in R
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Guidance: Creating Baseball Information
February 13, 2024
Create baseball information using data analysis.
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Assignment: Creating Empirical Baseball Knowledge
January 25, 2024
This assignment asks a student to create an original item of baseball knwoledge.
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