The schedule, material, assignments will be updated throughout the semester.
Day | Topics | Notes | Reading | Assignment |
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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 |
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 |