DS at Northeastern University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate DS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 21 DS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 20 more DS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on DS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in DS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at DS 4420

  1. CS 2100Program Design and Implementation 1
  2. CS 3100Program Design and Implementation 2
  3. DS 4400Machine Learning and Data Mining 1
  4. DS 4420Machine Learning and Data Mining 2

• 3 courses deep, ending at DS 4973

  1. CS 2100Program Design and Implementation 1
  2. CS 3000Algorithms and Data
  3. DS 4973Topics in Data Science

• 2 courses deep, ending at DS 3500

  1. DS 2500Intermediate Programming with Data
  2. DS 3500Advanced Programming with Data

• 2 courses deep, ending at DS 4971

  1. DS 4970Junior/Senior Honors Project 1
  2. DS 4971Junior/Senior Honors Project 2

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DS yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

DS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Northeastern campus feed.