Introduction to Data Science (in Python)
This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the quarter. Note that this schedule will be updated as the quarter progresses, with all changes documented here.
| Week | Date | Required Reading | Lecture Slides | Lab Activity | Weekly Assignment | Exams & Project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Summarizing Tabular Data | Tuesday, January 6 | Activity 1.1 (Link to Collab) | ||||
| Thursday, January 8 | Visualizing and Comparing Categorical Variables | Activity 1.2 (Link to Collab) | ||||
| Monday, January 12 | Lab 1A, 1B Due by 5pm | |||||
| 2 Summarizing & Visualizing Quantitative Data | Tuesday, January 14 (Dr. T’s b-day) |
Activity 2.1 (Link to Collab) | ||||
| Thursday, January 16 | Activity 2.2 | |||||
| Monday, January 19 | Lab 2A, 2B Due by 5pm | |||||
| 3 Measuring Similarity with Distances |
Tuesday, January 20 | No Class (Classes Follow Monday Schedule) | ||||
| Thursday, January 22 | Distances Between Observations Lecture Activity 3.1 |
Activity 3.1 | Lab 3 | |||
| Monday, January 26 | Lab 3 Due by 5pm | |||||
| 4 Dummy Variables & TF-IDF |
Tuesday, January 27 | Dummy Variables and Column Transformers | Activity 4.1 | |||
| Thursday, January 29 | Bag-of-Words and TF-IDF | Activity 4.2 | ||||
| Monday, February 2 | Lab 4A, 4B Due by 5pm | |||||
| 5 K-Nearest Neighbors & Midterm Exam |
Tuesday, February 3 | Activity 5.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 5 | Spicing up Your Visualizations | Activity 5.2 | No lab this week! | Exam 1 (in-class) | ||
| 6 Classification & Model Selection |
Tuesday, February 10 | Activity 6.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 12 | Activity 6.2 | Lab 6 | ||||
| Monday, February 16 | Lab 6 Due by 5pm | |||||
| 7 Logistic Regression & Unsupervised Learning |
Tuesday, February 17 | Activity 7.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 19 | Activity 7.2 | Lab 7 | ||||
| Monday, February 23 | Lab 7 Due by 5pm | Project Proposal Due | ||||
| 8 Clustering & Joining Data |
Tuesday, February 24 | Activity 8.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 26 | Activity 8.2 | Lab 8 | ||||
| Monday, March 2 | Lab 8 Due by 5pm | |||||
| 9 Data Ethics |
Tuesday, March 3 | Reading Guide: Data Context | Data Ethics Part 1 | No Lab, Project Work Session | ||
| Thursday, March 5 | Reading Guide: Model Ethics | Data Ethics Part 2 | No Lab, Project Work Session | Project Guidelines | ||
| Monday, March 9 | No lab this week! | Practice Exam Review | ||||
| 10 Final Posters & Final Exam |
Tuesday, March 10 | First Half: Practice Exam Review Second Half: Poster Work Session |
Practice Exam Solutions | |||
| Thursday, March 12 | Exam 2 (at beginning of class) | Exam 2 (in-class) | ||||
| Finals Week | Saturday, March 14 1:10pm - 2:30pm | Poster Presentations |