This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses. Due dates for the exams and project will
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Week 00 |
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| Wed, Jan 9 |
Welcome to Data Science |
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| Thur, Jan 10 |
Lab 00: Logistics |
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| UNIT 1: |
Visualizing and wrangling data |
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Week 01 |
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| Mon, Jan 14 |
Meet the Toolkit |
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| Wed, Jan 16 |
Fundamentals of data & data visualization |
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| Thur, Jan 17 |
Lab 01: Hello R! |
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Week 02 |
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| Mon, Jan 21 |
NO CLASS - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
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| Wed, Jan 23 |
Tidy data & data wrangling |
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| Thur, Jan 24 |
Lab 02: Data wrangling & visualization |
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Week 03 |
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| Mon, Jan 28 |
Data Wrangling |
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Merge Conflicts |
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| Wed, Jan 30 |
Effective Data Visualization, Pt 1 |
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| Thur, Jan 31 |
Lab 03: Visualizing spatial data |
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Week 04 |
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| Mon, Feb 4 |
Effective Data Visualization, Pt 2 |
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Recap |
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| Wed, Feb 6 |
Confounding variables & Simpson's paradox |
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| Thur, Feb 7 |
Lab 04: Wrangling spatial data |
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Writing Exercise 02 assigned |
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Week 05 |
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| Mon, Feb 11 |
Coding style + Data types + Recoding variables |
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Exam 01 assigned |
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| Wed, Feb 13 |
Exam work day |
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| Thur, Feb 14 |
Lab 05: Simpson's Paradox |
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| Fri, Feb 15 |
Exam 01 due at 11:59p |
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| UNIT 2 |
Making rigorous conclusions |
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Week 06 |
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| Mon, Feb 18 |
The language of models |
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| Wed, Feb 20 |
Formalizing linear models |
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| Thur, Feb 21 |
Lab 06: Modelling course evaluations |
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Week 07 |
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| Mon, Feb 25 |
Modeling nonlinear relations + Introducing multiple predictors |
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| Wed, Feb 27 |
Multiple linear regression + Model selection |
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| Thur, Feb 28 |
Lab 07: Modeling course evaluations, Part 2 |
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Week 08 |
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| Mon, Mar 4 |
Prediction & model validation |
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| Wed, Mar 6 |
Estimation via bootstrapping |
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| Thur, Mar 7 |
Lab 08: Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps |
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Week 09 |
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| Mon, Mar 11 |
NO CLASS - Spring break |
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| Wed, Mar 13 |
NO CLASS - Spring break |
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| Thur, Mar 14 |
NO CLASS - Spring break |
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Week 10 |
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| Mon, Mar 18 |
Hypothesis testing via simulation methods |
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| Wed, Mar 20 |
Inference overview |
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| Thur, Mar 21 |
Lab: Work on project proposals |
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Week 11 |
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| Mon, Mar 25 |
Review of simulation based inference |
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Writing Ex. #3 assigned |
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| Wed, Mar 27 |
Central limit theorem |
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| Thur, Mar 28 |
Lab 09: Simulation based inference |
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| Fri, Mar 29 |
Project proposal due |
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Week 12 |
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| Mon, Apr 1 |
Central limit theorem based inference |
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Exam 02 assigned |
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| Wed, Apr 3 |
Inference for regression |
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| Thur, Apr 4 |
Lab: Midterm help |
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| Fri, Apr 5 |
Midterm 02 due (at 11:59p) |
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DataFest! (begins at 6p) |
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| Sat, Apr 6 |
DataFest! |
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| Sun, Apr 7 |
DataFest! (ends at 5p) |
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| UNIT 3 |
Looking forward |
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Week 13 |
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| Mon, Apr 8 |
Web scraping |
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| Wed, Apr 10 |
Functions & automation |
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| Thur, Apr 11 |
Lab 10: Scrape & analyze |
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Week 14 |
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| Mon, Apr 15 |
Interactive data visualization and reporting, Part 1 |
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| Wed, Apr 17 |
Interactive data visualization and reporting, Part 2 |
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| Thur, Apr 18 |
Work on project |
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Week 15 |
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| Mon, Apr 22 |
Data Science Ethics |
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| Wed, Apr 24 |
Text analysis of song lyrics |
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| Mon, Apr 29 |
Project presentations |
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