Wayne State University

Teaching

Experiential, hands-on, and empowering data science education at Wayne State University.

Courses

CourseTitleResources
DSA 6000Data Science and AnalyticsAlumni showcase
DSA 7500Data Science PracticumAlumni showcase  |  Practicum projects
IE 6210Applied Engineering Statistics—
IE 7710Introduction to Stochastic Processes—
IE 6010IoT and Edge AI ProgrammingSample projects

Teaching Philosophy

Experiential

Collegiate education is first and foremost about the experience of exploring, experimenting, discovering, sharing, and teamworking.

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Hands-on

Students learn best by building and delivering working analytical solutions to real-world problems under time and resource constraints.

Empowering

The goal is career success and lifelong growth. Alumni support and industry connections are integral to the program.

Alumni gallery →

Student Project Highlights

Selected projects from DSA 6000 (Data Science and Analytics) and DSA 7500 (Practicum).

DSA6000 Class Word Cloud
What skills do you want as a data scientist?
DSA 6000 class word cloud from the first day of the semester.
Matrix Trucking Load Selection
Load Selection Optimization for Expedited Shipping
Matrix Trucking Company — predictive model to optimize load selection decisions. Slides →
Seattle Housing Price Modeling
Seattle Housing: A Deep Analysis
Random forest model achieved best RMSE among 5 methods on King County home price data. Slides →
Proteomics Classification
Organelle Proteomics Classification
Graph-based semi-supervised learning to identify novel organelle members. Slides →
HR Data Analysis
Human Resource Data Analysis
Predicting employee attrition using satisfaction, evaluation, and workload features. Report →
Nursing Home Readmission
Factors Impacting Post-Acute Re-Admissions
Identifying drivers of nursing home readmissions to reduce healthcare waste. Slides →
GDP Analysis
The Secret Sauce of a Nation’s GDP Growth
Data-driven exploration of economic indicators behind high-growth nations. Proposal →
DSA7500 Targeted Marketing Practicum
Practicum: Targeted Marketing (Ford / OneMagnify)
Predictive model for 18M US businesses — likelihood to purchase competitor vehicles. Video →
DSA7500 Hikma Revenue Leakage
Practicum: Revenue Leakage Detection (Hikma)
Identifying revenue leakage patterns in pharmaceutical distribution data. Summary →

Picture Stories

Research lab at WSU
Data is our oil. We drill it crude.

The data science and analytics team at Wayne State works on real industry data, processing raw information into actionable insights. Our lab is an incubator for the Detroit metro area’s analytics workforce.

DSA7500 2020 Summer Cohort
DSA 7500 Practicum — A Real-world Sandbox

The practicum course partners students with industry sponsors on semester-long data science projects, preparing them to tackle complex, messy, real-world analytical challenges before entering the job market.

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