Note: Due dates of exams and project will not move, however the timeline of topics and smaller assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

Date Lesson Slides Reading Lab AE HW EC Exam Project
Week 00
Wed, Jan 10 Welcome to Data Science
Thur, Jan 11 Lab 00: Logistics
Week 01
Mon, Jan 15 No class - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday
PART 1: Visualizing and wrangling data
Wed, Jan 17 Meet the toolkit
Thur, Jan 18 Lab 01: Hello R!
Week 02
Mon, Jan 22 Fundamentals of data & data visualization
Wed, Jan 24 Tidy data & data wrangling
Thur, Jan 25 Lab 02: Data wrangling and visualization
Week 03
Mon, Jan 29 Merge conflicts
Tips for effective data visualization
Wed, Jan 31 Data Visualization and Exploration, Pt 2
Thur, Feb 1 Lab 03: Visualizing spatial data
Week 04
Mon, Feb 5 Guest lecture: Hadley Wickham & Jenny Bryan
Wed, Feb 7 Review and recap
Thur, Feb 8 Lab 04: Wrangling spatial data
Week 05
Mon, Feb 12 Confounding variables and Simpson's paradox
Midterm 01 assigned
Wed, Feb 14 Coding style + Data types + Recoding variables
Thur, Feb 15 Lab 05: Simpson's paradox
Fri, Feb 16 Midterm 01 due (at noon)
PART 2 Making rigorous conclusions
Week 06
Mon, Feb 19 Factors + The language of models
Wed, Feb 21 Formalizing linear models
Thur, Feb 22 Lab 06: Modelling course evaluations
Week 07
Mon, Feb 26 Modeling nonlinear relations + Introducing multiple predictors
Wed, Feb 28 Multiple linear regression + Model selection
Thur, Mar 1 Lab 07: Modelling course evaluations, Pt 2
Week 08
Mon, Mar 5 Prediction and model validation
Wed, Mar 7 Estimation via bootstrapping
Thur, Mar 8 Lab 08: Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
Week 09
Mon, Mar 12 No class - Spring break
Wed, Mar 14 No class - Spring break
Thur, Mar 15 No lab - Spring break
Week 10
Mon, Mar 19 Hypothesis testing via simulation methods
Wed, Mar 21 Inference overview
Thur, Mar 22 Lab: Work on project proposals
Week 11
Mon, Mar 26 Review of simulation based inference
Wed, Mar 28 Central limit theorem
Thur, Mar 29 Lab 09: Simulation based inference
Week 12
Mon, Apr 2 Central limit theorem based inference
Midterm 02 assigned
Wed, Apr 4 Inference for regression
Thur, Apr 5 Lab: MT review
Fri, Apr 6 Midterm 02 due (at noon)
DataFest! (begins at 6pm)
Sat, Apr 7 DataFest!
Sum, Apr 8 DataFest! (ends at 5pm)
PART 3 Looking forward
Week 13
Mon, Apr 9 Web scraping
Wed, Apr 11 Functions and automation
Thur, Apr 12 Lab 10: Scrape and analyze
Week 14
Mon, Apr 16 Interactive data visualization and reporting, Part 1
Wed, Apr 18 Interactive data visualization and reporting, Part 2
Thur, Apr 19 Work on project
Week 15
Mon, Apr 23 Bayesian inference
Wed, Apr 25 Text analysis of song lyrics
Sat, May 5 Project presentations