Course Schedule
Schedule
Note this tentative schedule is subject to change. Please check the schedule regularly.
Last updated: 04/09/2022
| Week | Starting | Topics | Reading | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/17/22 | M: MLK Day; No Classes | Reading 1 | HW1 out. |
| W: Lec1: Course introduction | ||||
| F: Lec2: Introduction to data science | ||||
| 2 | 1/24/22 | M: Lec3: Review Python for data science | Reading 2 | |
| W: Lec4: Numpy arrays and array indexing | ||||
| F: Lec5: Numpy array operations | ||||
| 3 | 1/31/22 | M: Lab 1 Numpy | Reading 3 | HW 1 due on Mon; HW2 out; |
| W: Lec6: Pandas - Series and DataFrame | Team formation due on Mon. | |||
| F: Lec7: Pandas - groupby, concat, merge | ||||
| 4 | 2/7/22 | M: Lec8: Pandas - IO and methods | Reading 4 | Paper reading assignment out on Mon. |
| W: PE1: Pandas exercises | ||||
| F: Lab 2 Pandas | ||||
| 5 | 2/14/22 | M: Lec9: Data visualization - Matplotlib, Pandas | Reading 5 | HW2 due on Mon; HW3 out. |
| W: Lec10: Data visualization - Seaborn | ||||
| F: Lec11: Data visualization - Plotly | ||||
| 6 | 2/21/22 | M: Lab 3 Visualization | Reading 6 | Project proposal due on Mon. |
| W: Lec12: Module 1 summary and exam 1 preview | ||||
| F: Exam 1 | ||||
| 7 | 2/28/22 | M: Spring Break, No Classes | ||
| W: Spring Break, No Classes | ||||
| F: Spring Break, No Classes | ||||
| 8 | 3/7/22 | M: Lec13: Basic statistics | Reading 7 | HW 3 due on Mon. |
| W: Lec14: More on Statistics and probability | ||||
| F: Lec15: Intro to machine learning | ||||
| 9 | 3/14/22 | M: Lec16: Linear regression | Reading 8 | |
| W: PE2: Linear regression exercises | ||||
| F: Lec17: Logistic regression Part 1 | ||||
| 10 | 3/21/22 | M: Lec18: Logistic regression Part 2 | Reading 9 | Paper reading assignment due on Mon; HW4 out. |
| W: Lec19: K nearest neighbors | ||||
| F: PE3: Classification | ||||
| 11 | 3/28/22 | M: Lab 4 Classification | Reading 10 | Project milestone submission due on Mon. |
| W: Final project milestone demo | ||||
| F: Lec20: K-means clustering | ||||
| 12 | 4/4/22 | M: PE4: K-means exercises | Reading 11 | HW4 due Mon; |
| W: Stomach bug wrangling | ||||
| F: Lab 5 Clustering | ||||
| 13 | 4/11/22 | M: Lec21: Dimensionality reduction | Reading 12 | HW5 out. |
| W: Lec22: Support vector machine | ||||
| F: College Holiday, No Classes | ||||
| 14 | 4/18/22 | M: PE5: SVM | Reading 13 | |
| W: Lab 6 SVM | ||||
| F: Lec23: Module 2 summary and exam 2 preview | ||||
| 15 | 4/25/22 | M: Exam 2 | Reading 14 | Paper presentation slides due on Mon. |
| W: Paper presentation group 1 | ||||
| F: Paper presentation group 2 | Final project due on Sunday 05/01 midnight | |||
| 16 | 5/2/22 | M: Final project presentation group 1 | HW5 due Mon. | |
| W: Final project presentation group 2 | ||||
| 17 | 5/9/22 | Tue: 2:30 - 5:30 PM: No final exam | ||
Weekly Reading Assignments
| Week # | Reading # | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reading 1 | DSS Ch.1 |
| 2 | Reading 2 | DSS Ch.2 |
| 3 | Reading 3 | DSS Ch.4, PDA Ch.4 |
| 4 | Reading 4 | PDA Ch.5 |
| 5 | Reading 5 | PDA Ch.6 |
| 6 | Reading 6 | PDA Ch.8 |
| 7 | Reading 7 | DSS Ch.5-6 |
| 8 | Reading 8 | DSS Ch.11 |
| 9 | Reading 9 | DSS Ch.14, ISLR Ch.2-3 |
| 10 | Reading 10 | DSS Ch.16, ISLR Ch.4.1-4.3 |
| 11 | Reading 11 | DSS Ch.12, ISLR Ch.4 |
| 12 | Reading 12 | DSS Ch.19, ISLR Ch.9-10 |
| 13 | Reading 13 | DSS Ch.24 |
| 14 | Reading 14 | All notes |