This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses. Due dates for the exams and project will
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Week 01 |
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| Tue, Aug 27 |
Welcome to Data Science |
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| Thu, Aug 29 |
Meet the Toolkit |
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| Fri, Aug 30 |
Lab 01: Hello R! |
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| UNIT 1 |
Collecting, wrangling, & visualizing data |
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Week 02 |
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| Tue, Sep 3 |
Fundamentals of data & data visualization |
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| Thu, Sep 5 |
Tidy data & data wrangling |
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| Fri, Sep 6 |
Lab 02: Data wrangling & visualization |
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Week 03 |
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| Tue, Sep 10 |
Effective data visualization, Part 1 |
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| Thu, Sep 12 |
Confounding variables & Simpson's paradox |
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Writing Exercise #1: 9/12 - 9/19 |
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| Fri, Sep 13 |
Lab 03: Visualizing Spatial Data |
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Week 04 |
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| Mon, Sep 16 |
HW 01 due |
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| Tue, Sep 17 |
Effective data visualization, Part 2 |
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Recap |
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| Thu, Sep 19 |
Coding style + data types + recoding variables |
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| Fri, Sep 20 |
Lab 04: Wrangling spatial data |
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Week 05 |
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| Tue, Sep 24 |
Web scraping |
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Team Feedback #1 due 9/26 |
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Writing Exercise #2: 9/24 - 10/1 |
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| Thu, Sep 26 |
Webscraping, Pt 2 |
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| Fri, Sep 27 |
Lab 05: Simpson's Paradox |
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Week 06 |
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| Tue, Oct 1 |
Functions and automation |
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Exam 01 assigned |
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| Thu, Oct 3 |
Text Analysis |
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| Fri, Oct 4 |
Exam 01 Office Hours |
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| Sun, Oct 6 |
Exam 01 due |
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Week 07 |
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| Tue, Oct 8 |
NO CLASS - Fall Break |
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| UNIT 2 |
Modeling relationships between variables |
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| Thu, Oct 10 |
Language of models |
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| Fri, Oct 11 |
Project Lab |
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Week 08 |
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| Tue, Oct 15 |
Formalizing linear models |
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| Wed, Oct 16 |
Project topic ideas due |
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| Thu, Oct 17 |
Introducing multiple regression |
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| Fri, Oct 18 |
Lab 06: Modeling course evaluations |
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Week 09 |
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| Tue, Oct 22 |
Multiple linear regression + model selection |
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| Thu, Oct 24 |
Prediction + model validation |
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| Fri, Oct 25 |
Lab 07: Modeling course evaluations, Part 2 |
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| UNIT 3 |
Making rigorous conclusions |
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Week 10 |
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| Tue, Oct 29 |
Estimation via bootstrapping |
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| Thu, Oct 31 |
Estimation via bootstrapping |
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| Fri, Nov 1 |
Lab 08: Pull yourself up by your bootstraps |
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Week 11 |
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| Tue, Nov 5 |
Hypothesis testing via simulation methods, Part 1 |
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| Thu, Nov 7 |
Hypothesis testing via simulation methods, Part 2 |
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| Fri, Nov 8 |
Lab 09: Simulation-based inference |
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Week 12 |
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| Tue, Nov 12 |
Simulation-based inference review |
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Writing Exercise #3: 11/12 - 11/19 |
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| Thu, Nov 14 |
Sampling Distributions & Central Limit Theorem |
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| Fri, Nov 15 |
Project Work Day |
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Week 13 |
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| Tue, Nov 19 |
Inference using Central Limit Theorem |
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Exam 02 assigned |
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| Thu, Nov 21 |
Inference for regression |
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| Fri, Nov 22 |
Exam 02 office hours |
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| Sun, Nov 24 |
Exam 02 due |
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Week 14 |
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| Tue, Nov 26 |
Project Feedback Day |
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| Thu, Nov 28 |
NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break |
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| Fri, Nov 29 |
NO LAB - Thanksgiving Break |
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| UNIT 4 |
Looking forward |
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Week 15 |
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| Tue, Dec 3 |
Data Science Ethics |
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| Thu, Dec 5 |
Interactive data visualization using R Shiny |
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| Fri, Dec 6 |
Project lab |
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| Final Exam Period |
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| Fri, Dec 13 |
Project Writeup & Presentation due |
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| Sat, Dec 14 |
Project presentations |
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