Calendar
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lab/Assignment | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 8/26 | Why Data Science?
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 1: Python and Jupyter | Chapter 1: Why Data Science |
| Fri 8/28 | Causality and Experiments
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 1 (due Wed 9/2) (Solutions) | Chapter 1: Causality And Experiments | |
| 2 | Mon 8/31 | Expressions
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 1: Expressions | |
| Wed 9/2 | Sequences
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 2: Sequences | Chapter 1: Expressions | |
| Fri 9/4 | Tables
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 2 (due Wed 9/9) (Solutions) | Chapter 1: Tables | |
| 3 | Mon 9/7 | No Lecture: Labor Day | ||
| Wed 9/9 | Visualizations
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 3: Tables | Chapter 2: Visualizations | |
| Fri 9/11 | Bar Charts and Histograms
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 3 (due Wed 9/16) (Solutions) | Chapter 2: Bar Charts And Histograms | |
| 4 | Mon 9/14 | Functions
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 2: Functions | |
| Wed 9/16 | Sampling
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 4: Histograms | Chapter 2: Sampling | |
| Fri 9/18 | Explorations: Privacy
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 4 (due Wed 9/23) (Solutions) | Chapter 2: Explorations Privacy | |
| 5 | Mon 9/21 | Iteration
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 3: Iteration Chapter 2: Appendix Statements |
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| Wed 9/23 | Distributions I
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 5: Sampling | Chapter 3: Distributions | |
| Fri 9/25 | Distributions II
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 5 (due Wed 9/30) (Solutions) | Chapter 3: Distributions | |
| 6 | Mon 9/28 | Total Variation Distance
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 3: Total Variation Distance | |
| Wed 9/30 | Hypothesis Testing
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 6: Distributions | Chapter 3: Are The Panels Representative Of The Population? | |
| Fri 10/2 | Permutation Tests I
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 6 (due Wed 10/7) (Solutions) | Chapter 3: Comparing Two Groups | |
| 7 | Mon 10/5 | Permutation Tests II
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 3: Comparing Two Groups | |
| Wed 10/7 | Statistics
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 7: Project 1 Part 1 Project 1 (due Mon 11/2) |
Chapter 3: Further Generalization: New Test Statistics | |
| Fri 10/9 | Center and Spread
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 7 (due Wed 10/14) (Solutions) | Chapter 3: The Probability Distribution Of A Sample Mean | |
| 8 | Mon 10/12 | Bell Curves
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 3: The Normal Distribution | |
| Wed 10/14 | Central Limit Theorem
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 8: Project 1 Part 2 | Chapter 3: Approximately Normal Probability Histograms | |
| Fri 10/16 | Review
(Video, Slides) |
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| 9 | Mon 10/19 | No Lecture: Midterm | ||
| Wed 10/21 | Confidence Intervals
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 9: Project 1 Part 2 (again) | Chapter 3: Inference About The Mean Of An Unknown Population | |
| Fri 10/23 | Explorations: Art and Esthetics
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 8 (due Wed 10/28) (Solutions) | Design and Redesign in Data Visualization | |
| 10 | Mon 10/26 | The Bootstrap
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 3: The Bootstrap | |
| Wed 10/28 | A/B Testing
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 10: Cumulative Distribution Functions | Chapter 3: Using The Bootstrap Method To Test Hypotheses | |
| Fri 10/30 | Correlation
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 9 (due Wed 11/4) (Solutions) | Chapter 4: Correlation | |
| 11 | Mon 11/2 | Regression
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 4: Regression | |
| Wed 11/4 | Regression Inference
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 11: Bootstrap and Regression | Chapter 4: Bootstrap For Regression | |
| Fri 11/6 | Causality
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 10 (due Fri 11/13) (Solutions) | ||
| 12 | Mon 11/9 | Classification
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 4: Classification | |
| Wed 11/11 | No Lecture: Veterans Day | |||
| Fri 11/13 | Feature Selection
(Video, Slides) |
Homework 11 (due Wed 11/18) (Solutions) | Chapter 4: Building A Model | |
| 13 | Mon 11/16 | Classifying Song Lyrics
(Video, Slides) |
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| Wed 11/18 | Multiple Regression
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 12: Project 2 Project 2 (due Fri 12/4) |
Chapter 4: Multiple Regression | |
| Fri 11/20 | Collinearity
(Video, Slides) |
Chapter 4: Correlated Predictors | ||
| 14 | Mon 11/23 | Chance Models
(Video, Slides) |
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| Tue 11/24 | Homework 12 (due Wed 12/2) (Solutions) | |||
| Wed 11/25 | No Lecture: Thanksgiving | |||
| Fri 11/27 | No Lecture: Thanksgiving | |||
| 15 | Mon 11/30 | Conditional Probability
(Video, Slides) |
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| Wed 12/2 | Bayes' Theorem
(Video, Slides) |
Lab 13: Project 2 (again) | ||
| Fri 12/4 | Conclusion
(Video, Slides) |