Intro to Data and a Journey to Explore BIG DATA!!!

Complex data is all around us—online, in the news, and under our noses each day. This growth of data shows no signs of slowing and indeed seems to be accelerating. Analyzing data, spotting patterns, and extracting useful information has become gateway skills to full participation in the workforce and civic engagement of the 21st century.

This course is intended to give students a solid background in database systems. Data is a collection of facts, such as values or measurements. It can be numbers, words, measurements, observations or even just descriptions of things.

This course introduces and defines the terminology, concepts, and skills you need to understand the database.