2024-08-20: Six WSDL Classes Offered for Fall 2024

 

https://xkcd.com/2173/ 

Six courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Group will be offered for Fall 2024.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line, f2f, and hybrid. 

• CS 432/532 Web Science, Ms. Nasreen Muhammad Arif, asynchronous  
  Topics: Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.  
• CS 433/533 Web Security, Dr. Michael L. Nelson, asynchronous  
  Topics: HTTP, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Same Origin Policy, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Fingerprinting, Denial-of-service, Phishing. 
  
• CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna, Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6-7:15 
  Topics: Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab.
  
• CS 625 Data Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle, asynchronous 
  Topics: Tableau, Python Seaborn, Matplotlib, Vega-Lite, Observable, Markdown, OpenRefine, data cleaning, visual perception, visualization design, exploratory data analysis, visual storytelling  
• CS 733/833 Natural Language Processing, Dr. Vikas Ashok, two sections: 1) Wednesdays 4:30-7, and 2) Fridays 1-3:40  
  Topics: Language Models, Parsing, Word Embedding, Machine Translation, Text Simplification, Text Summarization, Question Answering
• CS 734/834 Information Retrieval, Dr. Jian Wu, Tuesdays 6-8:40  
  Topics: crawling, ranking, query processing, retrieval models, evaluation, clustering, machine learning. 

Non-WSDL member Dr. Ashok Kumar Veerasamy will be also teaching sections of both CS 620 and CS 625.  

 The Spring 2025 semester is still undecided, but the following courses are likely:

• CS 725/825 Information Visualization, Dr. Michele C. Weigle
• CS 728/828 Deep Learning, Dr. Jian Wu

Drs. Michael L. Nelson, Sampath Jayarathna, and Vikas Ashok will not be teaching in Spring 2025.

Previous course offerings: S24, F23, S23, F22, S22, F21, S21, F20, S20, F19, S19, and F18.

--Michael