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Instructors: Babak Ayazifar and Swupnil Sahai

Lecture: MWF 10am-11am

Week Lecture Number Date Topic Vitamin Lecture Reading Discussion Assignment
Week 1 1 Wed 01/20 Introduction Slides, Demos, Video 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
2 Fri 01/22 Cause and Effect
Vitamin 01 (Due Wed 01/27)
 Slides, Video 2
Homework 01 (Due Thu 01/28)
Week 2 3 Mon 01/25 Tables Slides, Demos, Video 3
4 Wed 01/27 Data Types Slides, Demos, Video 4, 5
5 Fri 01/29 Building Tables
Vitamin 02 (Due Wed 02/03)
 Slides, Demos, Video 6.1, 6.2
Homework 02 (Due Thu 02/04)
Week 3 6 Mon 02/01 Census Slides, Demos, Video 6.3, 6.4
7 Wed 02/03 Charts Slides, Demos, Video 7, 7.1
8 Fri 02/05 Distributions
Vitamin 03 (Due Wed 02/10)
 Slides, Demos, Video 7.2, 7.3
Homework 03 (Due Thu 02/11)
Week 4 9 Mon 02/08 Histograms Slides, Demos, Video 7.2, 7.3
10 Wed 02/10 Functions Slides, Demos, Video 8, 8.1
11 Fri 02/12 Groups
Vitamin 04 (Due Wed 02/17)
 Slides, Demos, Video 8.2, 8.3
Homework 04 (Due Sun 02/21)
(Due Fri 02/26; Checkpoint Fri 02/19)
Week 5 0 Mon 02/15 Holiday: No class
12 Wed 02/17 Pivots and Joins Slides, Demos, Lec 12A Video, Lec 12B Video 8.4, 8.5
Lab: Project 1
13 Fri 02/19 Iteration
Vitamin 05 (Due Wed 02/24)
 Slides, Demos, Video 9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Homework 05 (Due Thu 02/25)
Week 6 14 Mon 02/22 Chance Slides, Demos, Video 9.5, 18.1
15 Wed 02/24 Sampling Slides, Demos, Video 10, 10.1, 10.2
16 Fri 02/26 Models
Vitamin 06 (Due Wed 03/03)
 Slides, Demos, Video 10.3, 11.1
Homework 06 (Due Thu 03/04)
Week 7 17 Mon 03/01 Comparing Distributions Slides, Demos, Video 11.1, 11.2
18 Wed 03/03 Decisions and Uncertainty Slides, Demos, Video 11.3
Homework 07 (Due Thu 03/11)
19 Fri 03/05 A/B Testing
Vitamin 07 (Due Wed 03/10)
 Slides, Demos, Video 12.1, 12.2
Week 8 20 Mon 03/08 Causality Slides, Demos, Video 12.3
Lab: Midterm Review, Worksheet (Solutions)
21 Wed 03/10 Examples Slides, Demos, Video 11.4
22 Fri 03/12 Midterm Review Slides, Video
Midterm (7 PM - 9 PM)
Week 9 23 Mon 03/15 Confidence Intervals Slides, Demos, Video 13, 13.1, 13.2
Lab 07: Bootstrap (CANCELLED)
24 Wed 03/17 Interpreting Confidence Slides, Demos, Video 13.3, 13.4
25 Fri 03/19 Center and Spread
Vitamin 08 (Due Wed 03/31)
 Slides, Demos, Video 14, 14.1, 14.2
Homework 08 (Due Thu 04/01)
(Due Fri 04/16; Checkpoint 1 Fri 04/02; Checkpoint 2 Fri 04/09)
Week 10 0 Mon 03/22 Holiday: No class
0 Wed 03/24 Holiday: No class
0 Fri 03/26 Holiday: No class
Week 11 26 Mon 03/29 The Normal Distribution Slides, Demos, Video 14.3, 14.4
Lab: Project 2
27 Wed 03/31 Sample Means Slides, Demos, Video 14.5
28 Fri 04/02 Designing Experiments
Vitamin 09 (Due Wed 04/07)
 Slides, Demos, Video 14.6
Homework 09 (Due Thu 04/08)
Week 12 29 Mon 04/05 Correlation Slides, Demos, Video 15, 15.1
30 Wed 04/07 Linear Regression Slides, Demos, Video 15.2
31 Fri 04/09 Least Squares
Vitamin 10 (Due Wed 04/14)
 Slides, Demos, Video 15.3, 15.4
Homework 10 (Due Thu 04/15)
Week 13 32 Mon 04/12 Residuals Slides, Demos, Video 15.5, 15.6
33 Wed 04/14 Regression Inference Slides, Demos, Video 16
34 Fri 04/16 Privacy
Vitamin 11 (Due Wed 04/21)
 Slides, Video
Homework 11 (Due Thu 04/22)
(Due Fri 04/30; Checkpoint Fri 04/23)
Week 14 35 Mon 04/19 Classification Slides, Demos, Video 17, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
36 Wed 04/21 Classifiers Slides, Demos, Video 17.4
Lab: Project 3
37 Fri 04/23 Updating Predictions
Vitamin 12 (Due Wed 04/28)
 Slides, Demos, Video 18
Homework 12 (Due Thu 04/29)
Week 15 38 Mon 04/26 No lecture
39 Wed 04/28 Case Study: Health Slides, Demos, Video
40 Fri 04/30 Conclusion Slides, Video
Week 16 0 Mon 05/03
0 Wed 05/05
0 Fri 05/07
0 Tue 05/11 Final Exam
Final (3 PM - 6 PM)