COMP8430

Data Wrangling

Credit
6 units
Catalogue year
2027
Recorded offerings
None recorded

Course information

Real-world data are commonly messy, distributed, and heterogeneous. This course introduces core concepts of data cleaning and standardisation, and data integration, that are aimed at converting and mapping raw data into other formats that allow more efficient and convenient use and analysis of data. The courses also discusses data quality, management, and storage issues as relevant to data analytics.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed either COMP7230, COMP6730 or COMP6710; AND COMP7240 or COMP6240. Incompatible with COMP3430. A permission code is needed to take this course in intensive mode.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Critically reflect upon different data sources, types, formats, and structures,

Research, justify and apply data cleaning, preprocessing, and standardisation for data analytics,

Apply data integration concepts and techniques to heterogeneous and distributed data,

Interpret, assess and discuss data quality measurements,

Research and justify advanced data wrangling, data integration, and database techniques as relevant to data analytics

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