CITS4009 Fundamentals of Data Science (University of Western Australia): rated 2.4/5 overall across 11 reviews collected on UWA Wall.
CITS4009 is a University of Western Australia course taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing in Information Technology. This page brings together its handbook details and what UWA students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 数据科学基础
Type: Undergraduate/Postgraduate unit
Credit points: 6
Subject area: Information Technology
Faculty: Physics, Mathematics and Computing
Level: Undergraduate Level 4
Handbook year: 2026
This unit answers an urgent call to harness the unprecedented amount of data now generated from every facet of our daily life by introducing data science as the discipline dealing with collecting, representing, manipulating and visualising data in contemporary society. Students taking the unit learn to write computer programs to extract, transform and integrate data from multiple heterogeneous sources, including traditional relational databases and web-based resources.
CITS4009 has 11 scored reviews: overall 2.4/5 · usefulness 1.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 StudentVIP review (average 1.0 stars); 10 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.5/5).
On Reddit: "I did it in 2021. If you know R and can use R Studio well, it won’t be a very hard unit. When I did this unit, we need to do two projects, one mid term exam and the final exam. Besides data visualization and analysis, you also need to know how to do the data cleaning work in ord…"
On Reddit: "I did the unit a couple years ago, it was a great entry to data science. The unit covered concepts surrounding data visualisation and analysis, and also introduces machine learning, mainly focused on regression, decision trees and knn. (At least when I took the unit) the exam wa…"
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Q: Is CITS4009 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 11 reviews: usefulness 1.0/5, overall 2.4/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches CITS4009, and when is it offered?
A: CITS4009 is taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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