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  • Department of Statistics (30% English)
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  • Data Literacy
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Course Introduction Information

Code - Course Title ESTÜ1502 - Data Literacy
Course Type Elective Courses
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Laboratory + Practice 3+0
ECTS 4.0
Course Instructor(s) PROFESÖR DOKTOR BETÜL KAN KILINÇ
Mode of Delivery Online
Prerequisites Recommending Fundamental Statistics
Courses Recomended Statistics
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Work Placement
Sustainability Development Goals

Content

Weeks Topics
Week - 1 EN:Data Description: What is data and why should we be data literate?
Week - 2 EN: Data sources: Open data, company data, web data, research data, public records
Week - 3 EN: Data types: Structured vs. Unstructured data, Numerical vs. Categorical data
Week - 4 EN: Data collection and ethics
Week - 5 EN: Data storage: Introduction to R, tidyverse package exploration
Week - 6 EN: EN: EN: Data cleaning, identifying and understanding variables
Week - 7 EN: Calculating descriptive statistics, making sense of and interpreting relationships.
Week - 8 EN: Bar charts (stacked and side-by-side), line and area charts, radar charts. The “Data-to-Ink Ratio” principle in visualization.
Week - 9 EN: Data visualization: Histograms, Density curves, Box plots, violin plots, scatter plots, heatmaps; legends
Week - 10 EN: Data Storytelling: How to interpret a graph? Techniques for effectively presenting findings.
Week - 11 Introduction to Data Science: What is data science, what does a data scientist do, roles and tools in data science
Week - 12 Introduction to the World of Data Science and Machine Learning: Fundamental Concepts in Machine Learning: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Model Performance
Week - 13 EN: Introduction to Machine Learning: Supervised learning, Logic of Regression and Classification, Linear regression application, KNN (K-Nearest Neighbors) algorithm application
Week - 14 EN: Unsupervised Learning:Logic of Clustering, Generative AI (GenAI) and the relationship of large language models with data

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  • Drill - Practise
  • Case Study
  • Problem Solving
  • Report Preparation and/or Presentation
  • Competences
  • Productive
  • Rational
  • Questoning
  • Follow ethical and moral rules
  • Effective use of Turkish
  • Effective use of a foreign language
  • Work in teams
  • Eleştirel düşünebilme
  • Problem solving
  • Information Management
  • Organization and planning
  • Elementary computing skills
  • Decision making
  • To work in interdisciplinary projects

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