The schedule, material, assignments will be updated throughout the semester.

Day Topics Notes Reading Assignment
Aug 28 Introduction to Data Science PDF Slides Paper(Draft) Paper(final)
Aug 30 Course Logistics and Data Visualization PDF Slides MDSR Ch.1 Install R and RStudio
Sep 1 Lab at Posvar 1201 Lab1 material MDSR App. B HW-1 Due on Thursday, Sept 7. Course Survey
Sep 4 NO CLASS (Labor day)
Sep 6 Data Visualization PDF Slides Supplement MDSR Ch.2, Mini-Tufte
Sep 8 Lab 2 at CL 244B. Bring your computer. Lab2 material Homework 1 is now due on Thursday, Sept. 14. Submit through CourseWeb
Sep 11 Data Visualization (Lec 3 continued)
Sep 13 Lec 4: Data Visualization - Dissecting Data Graphics PDF Slides homework (HW #3) on Tufte is due on Thursday, Sept. 21. Submit through CourseWeb
Sep 15 Lab on R Markdown at Posvar 1201 Lab3 material MDSR App. D Lab homework (HW #2) is due on Thursday, Sept. 21. Submit through CourseWeb
Sep 18 Data Visualization via ggplot2 Lec5.html Lec5.Rmd.zip Tidyverse_intro MDSR Sect. 3.1 homework (HW #4) on Dissecting graphics is due on Thursday, Sept. 28.
Sep 20 Data Visualization via ggplot2, continued. Lec6.html Lec6.Rmd.zip
Sep 22 Lab on ggplot2 Lab4 material MDSR Sect. 3.3.1 Lab homework is due on Thursday, Sept. 28.
Sep 25 Data Visualization via ggplot2, continued. Lec7.html Lec7.Rmd.zip MDSR Sect. 3.2
Sep 27 Finish Data Visualization. If time allows, Data Wrangling Slides from MVA
Sep 29 Quiz #1 & Lab on ggplot2. Lab5 material First Stats In Action seminar Lab homework is due on Thursday, Oct 5.
Oct 2 Data Wrangling Lec 8 slides MDSR Sect. 4.1. Hospital Ad. Media Hospital Ad. Article
Oct 4 Data Wrangling: one table Lec9.html Lec9.Rmd.zip
Oct 6 Lab 6: Data Wrangling: one table Lab6 material MDSR Sect. 3.3.2, 4.1 Lab homework is due on Thursday, Oct 12.
Oct 10 Data Wrangling: one table (by Tim) Lec10.html Tidyverse_slides_2
Oct 11 Data Wrangling: two tables Lec11.html Lec11.Rmd.zip MDSR Sect. 4.3
Oct 13 Lab 7: Data Wrangling to explore baseball database Lab7 material MDSR Sect. 4.2, 4.4 Homework due on Thursday, Oct 19.
Oct 16 Guest lecture by Dane Alabran on Interactive Data Graphics Slides Demo Scripts MDSR Ch. 11
Oct 18 Data Wrangling: two tables, continued.
Oct 20 Lab 8: Web scraping using APIs, handling lists, and automation Lab8 material MDSR Ch. 5 Homework due on Thursday, Oct 26.
Oct 23 Tidy data Lec12.html MDSR Sect. 5.1–5.3
Oct 25 Professional ethics Lec 13 slides MDSR Ch.6 Homework due on Thursday, Nov 2.
Oct 27 Quiz #2 on data wrangling
Oct 30 Statistical Foundation Lec14.html Lec14.Rmd.zip MDSR Ch.7 Final Project Guideline
Nov 1 Sampling distribution and bootstrap Lec15.html Lec15.Rmd.zip MDSR Ch.7
Nov 3 Lab 9: Tidying data with tidyr Lab9 material MDSR Sect. 5.1 Lab homework due on Thursday, Nov 9.
Nov 6 Bootstrap MDSR Ch.7, Appendix E
Nov 8 Statistical modeling I: Regression Slides Lec16.html Lec16.Rmd.zip MDSR Ch.7, Appendix E Final project proposal due
Nov 10 Lab 10: Many statistical analyses Lab10 material Lab homework due on Thursday, Nov 16.
Nov 13 Statistical modeling, continued.
Nov 15 Cause and effect Slides MDSR Sect. 7.6 Homework on Statistics, Due Thursday, Nov 30.
Nov 17 Quiz #3 on data tidying, Lab 11: Visualizing regression results Lab11 material Submit your lab solutions today
Nov 20 Thanksgiving week - no class
Nov 27 Statistical modeling II: Machine learning Slides Lec18.Rmd.zip MDSR Ch. 9 Final project progress report due
Nov 29 Statistical modeling III: Classification and Model Evaluation Slides Lec19.Rmd.zip MDSR Ch. 8
Dec 1 Lab 12: Many models II Lab12 material Submit your lab solutions today
Dec 4 Statistical modeling III, continued.
Dec 6 Semester recap slides
Dec 8 End of class meetings. Use lab times as an extended office hour.
Dec 11 Final project due