All Courses
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COGS 122 - Startup Studio - Popovic [FA21]
In this course, students will learn tools and processes for innovating novel business concepts to solve problems involving the interaction between humans and technology. Students will work with an interdisciplinary team to understand unmet user needs and to create a value proposition that balances technical feasibility, financial viability, and desirability. Ultimately, student teams will prototype a novel product or service, write a business plan, and produce a video suitable for launching a crowdfunding campaign. To inform the innovation process, students will learn new techniques for leveraging social media and crowdsourcing to discover users' needs and to obtain feedback on preliminary concepts. Selected readings will cover ubiquitous computing, service design, business modeling, creativity methods, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding.
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COGS 138 - Neural Data Science - Voytek [WI22]
Neuroscience is a rapidly changing field that is increasingly moving towards ever larger and more diverse datasets that are analyzed using increasingly sophisticated computational statistical methods. There is a strong need for neuroscientists who can think deeply about problems that incorporate information from a wide array of domains including psychology and behavior, cognitive science, genomics, pharmacology and chemistry, biophysics, statistics, and AI/ML. With its focus on combining many large, multidimensional, heterogeneous datasets to answer questions and solve problems, data science provides a framework for achieving this goal.
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COGS 9 - Introduction to Data Science - Voytek [WI22]
This class is a survey course intended to get you all excited about becoming data scientists! Data are everywhere and they’re being used in tried-and-true—as well as in new, awesome, and creative—ways. This course will introduce you to topics in data science, discuss what it means to be a data scientist, and get you on your way to thinking like a data scientist. To see what topics will be introduced in this course, see the calendar at the end.