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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Sunday, January 5 | Welcome to DATA 301! | ||||
| 1 Summarizing Tabular Data | Tuesday, January 7 | Activity 1.1 (Link to Collab) | ||||
| Thursday, January 9 | Visualizing and Comparing Categorical Variables | Activity 1.2 (Link to Collab) | ||||
| Sunday, January 12 | Lab 1A, 1B Due by Midnight | |||||
| 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 | |||||
| Sunday, January 19 | Lab 2A, 2B Due by Midnight | |||||
| 3 Measuring Similarity with Distances |
Tuesday, January 21 | No Class (Classes Follow Monday Schedule) | ||||
| Thursday, January 23 | Distances Between Observations Lecture Activity 3.1 |
Activity 3.1 | Lab 3 | |||
| Sunday, January 26 | Lab 3 Due by Midnight | |||||
| 4 Dummy Variables & TF-IDF |
Tuesday, January 28 | Dummy Variables and Column Transformers | Activity 4.1 | |||
| Thursday, January 30 | Bag-of-Words and TF-IDF | Activity 4.2 | ||||
| Sunday, February 2 | Lab 4A, 4B Due by Midnight | |||||
| 5 K-Nearest Neighbors & Midterm Exam |
Tuesday, February 4 | Activity 5.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 6 | Spicing up Your Visualizations | Activity 5.2 | Exam 1 (in-class) | |||
| Friday, February 7 | No lab this week! | |||||
| 6 Classification & Model Selection |
Tuesday, February 11 | Activity 6.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 13 | Activity 6.2 | Lab 6 | ||||
| Sunday, February 16 | Lab 6 Due by Midnight | |||||
| 7 Logistic Regression & Unsupervised Learning |
Tuesday, February 18 | Activity 7.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 20 | Activity 7.2 | Lab 7 | ||||
| Sunday, February 23 | Lab 7 Due by Midnight | Project Proposal Due | ||||
| 8 Clustering & Joining Data |
Tuesday, February 25 | Activity 8.1 | ||||
| Thursday, February 27 | Activity 8.2 | Lab 8 | ||||
| Sunday, March 2 | Lab 8 Due by Midnight | |||||
| 9 Data Ethics |
Tuesday, March 4 | Reading Guide: Data Context | Data Ethics Part 1 | No Lab, Project Work Session | ||
| Thursday, March 6 | Reading Guide: Model Ethics | Data Ethics Part 2 | No Lab, Project Work Session | Project Guidelines | ||
| Sunday, March 9 | No lab this week! | Practice Exam Review | ||||
| 10 Final Posters & Final Exam |
Tuesday, March 11 | First Half: Practice Exam Review Second Half: Poster Work Session |
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| Thursday, March 13 | Exam 2 (at beginning of class) | Exam 2 (in-class) | ||||
| Finals Week | Saturday, March 15 1:10pm - 2:30pm | Poster Presentations |