COGSCI 88 Data Science and the Mind

A Spring 2017 Data Science Connector Course

CCN:13775 | Yang Xu | Monday 12:00-2:00 PM | 105 Cory Hall | Units: 2

Announcements

• Welcome to Data Science and the Mind!

Course Description

How does the human mind work? We explore this question by analyzing a range of data concerning such topics as human rationality and irrationality, human memory, how objects and events are represented in the mind, and the relation of language and cognition. This class provides young scientists with critical thinking and computing skills that will allow them to work with data in cognitive science and related disciplines.

This connector connects with the Foundations of Data Science course in two ways: 1) it applies and reinforces inferential and computing ideas from the main course to quantitative analysis of phenomena in cognitive science 2) it connects practical skills taught in the main course with hypothesis- and theory-driven goals.