Dec 05, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
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BSE 464 - Data Analytics in Agricultural and Ecological Systems

3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the fundamentals of data science and modeling for analyzing environmental, ecological, and agricultural systems using the open-source software R. Note that prior programming experience is not required. This course is organized into the following sections: (1) introduction to programming in R, including the development of skills for cleaning environmental data, summarizing data, and creating visualizations, (2) overview of data-based and process-based modeling approaches, (3) applications, evaluation, and challenges of modeling in relation to environmental systems. Students will gain a broad understanding of different analytical tools and learn to apply such methods to agricultural and ecological data. This course is designed for students in a natural resources and life sciences discipline

Credit Restriction: Students may not receive credit for both BSE 464 and BSE 564
(RE) Prerequisite(s): MATH 125*  or MATH 141* ; CHEM 122*  and CHEM 123* ; BSE 231  or CHEM 132*  and CHEM 133* ; STAT 201*  or STAT 251  



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