Syllabus

Please note: This schedule is still tentative, and is likely to change. See the calendar to see the scheduling of our weekly events (discussion, lab, office hours, etc).

Week 1

Aug 28

Discussion No discussion this week

Aug 29

1. Course Overview (webcast) (code)

Ch. 1.1, Ch. 1.2

Homework Homework 1 (solutions) (due Sept. 5)

Week 2

Sep 2

Lab No lab this week

Sep 3

2. Probability and Data Design I (webcast)

Ch. 2, Ch. 10, Ch. 12

Sep 4

Discussion Discussion 2 (solutions)

Sep 5

3. Probability and Data Design II (webcast)

Ch. 2, Ch. 10, Ch. 12

Week 3

Sep 9

Lab Lab 3 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 3 (solutions)

Homework Homework 2 (solutions) (due Sept. 14)

Sep 10

4. Pandas I (webcast) (code)

Intro to Pandas if you’ve taken Data 8 (zip)

Sep 11

Discussion Discussion 3 (solutions)

Sep 12

5. Pandas II (webcast) (code)

Week 4

Sep 16

Lab Lab 4 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 4 (solutions)

Project Project 1 (solutions) (due Sept. 24)

Sep 17

6. Data Cleaning (webcast) (code)

Sep 18

Discussion Discussion 4 (notebook and solutions)

Sep 19

7. Visualization I (webcast)

Week 5

Sep 23

Lab Lab 5 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 5 (solutions)

Sep 24

8. Visualization II (webcast)

Sep 25

Discussion Discussion 5 (solutions)

Homework Homework 3 (solutions) (due Oct. 1)

Sep 26

9. Regular Expressions, Working with Text (webcast) (code)

Ch. 4, Ch. 5.3-5.7, Ch. 8

Week 6

Sep 30

Lab Lab 6 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 6 (solutions)

Oct 1

10. Dimensionality Reduction (webcast) (code)

(Optional) PCA Tutorial

Oct 2

Discussion Discussion 6 (solutions) (notebook)

Oct 3

11. Principal Component Analysis (webcast) (code)

Oct 4

Homework Homework 4 (solutions) (due Oct. 17)

Week 7

Oct 7: Lab (Optional) Lab 7 (solutions); Vitamin Vitamin 7 (solutions)
Oct 8: 12. Case Study / Midterm Review (code) (webcast); Exam Midterm 1 (8 - 9:30PM) (Blank) (Solutions)
Oct 9: Discussion Cancelled
Oct 10: 13. Cancelled (Outage)

Week 8

Oct 14

Lab Lab 8 (Discussion 7 Makeup) (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 8

Oct 15

14. Simple Linear Regression (webcast)

Ch. 13.1-13.3, Ch. 18.3

Oct 16

Discussion Discussion 8 (solutions)

Oct 17

15. Multiple Linear Regression, HCE (webcast)

Homework Homework 5 (solutions) (due Oct. 25)

Week 9

Oct 21

Lab Lab 9 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 9 (solutions)

Oct 22

16. Modeling (webcast)

Ch. 13.5, Ch. 14.1

Oct 23

Discussion Discussion 9 (solutions)

Oct 24

17. Feature Engineering and Regularization (webcast) (code 1) (code 2)

Ch. 14.2, Ch. 15, Ch. 16

Oct 25

Homework Homework 6 (companion notebook) (solutions) (due Nov. 1)

Week 10

Oct 28

Lab Lab 10 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 10 (solutions)

Oct 29

18. Regularization, Gradient Descent (webcast) (code)

Oct 30

Discussion Discussion 10 (solutions)

Oct 31

19. Gradient Descent, Logistic Regression (webcast) (code)

Ch. 11, Ch. 17.1-17.3

Nov 1

Homework Homework 7 (solutions) (due Nov. 9)

Week 11

Nov 4

Lab Lab 11 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 11 (solutions)

Nov 5

20. Logistic Regression, Cross Entropy Loss, Classification (webcast) (code)

Nov 6

Discussion Discussion 11 (solutions)

Nov 7

21. Midterm 2 Review (webcast)

Nov 9

Project Project 2 (solutions) (due Nov. 24)

Week 12

Nov 11

Lab No lab this week

Vitamin Vitamin 12 (solutions)

Nov 12

22. Classification, Regularization (webcast) (code)

Nov 13

Exam Midterm 2 (8 - 9:30PM)

Nov 14

23. Web Technologies (webcast) (code)

Week 13

Nov 18

Lab Lab 13 (solutions)

Vitamin Vitamin 13 (solutions)

Nov 19

24. SQL (webcast) (code)

Nov 20

Discussion Discussion 13 (solutions)

Nov 21

25. Decision Trees, Random Forests (webcast) (code)

Week 14

Nov 24: Project Project 3 (due Dec. 8)
Nov 25: Lab Lab 14 (solutions); Vitamin Vitamin 14 (solutions)
Nov 26: 26. Clustering (webcast)
Nov 27: Discussion No Discussion (Thanksgiving); Homework Homework 8 (solutions) (due Dec. 8)
Nov 28: No Lecture (Thanksgiving)

Week 15

Dec 2: Lab Lab 15 (solutions); Vitamin Vitamin 15 (solutions)
Dec 3: 27. HCE Part 2, Real World Impact (webcast)
Dec 4: Discussion Discussion 15 (solutions)
Dec 5: 28. Conclusion (webcast)

Week 16

Dec 9: Lab Review Labs

Final Exam

Dec 17: Exam Final (3-6PM)