Note: This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses. Due dates for the exams and project will not be changed.



Date Lesson Slides Reading Lab AE HW Exam Project
Week 01
Wed, May 12 Welcome to Data Science
Thu, May 13 Meet the Toolkit
Fri, May 14 Lab 01: Hello R!
Last day for Drop/Add
UNIT 1 Collecting, wrangling, & visualizing data
Week 02
Mon, May 17 Data and visualization
Wed, May 19 Visualizing different types of data
Thu, May 20 Tidy data and data wrangling
Fri, May 21 Lab 02: Data wrangling & visualization
Week 03
Mon, May 24 Joining data from multiple sources
Wed, May 26 Introduction to probability
Homework 01 Assigned
Thu, May 27 Conditional Probability
Fri, May 28 Lab 03: Nobel laureates
Week 04
Mon, May 31 Memorial Day: No classes
Wed, June 2 Confounding and Simpson's Paradox
Thu, June 3 Data Science Ethics
Fri, June 4 Lab 04: Examining smoking and health outcomes
UNIT 2 Making rigorous conclusions
Week 05
Mon, June 7 Estimation via bootstrapping
Wed, June 9 Simulation-based testing: Part 1
Thu, June 10 Simulation-based testing: Part 2
Fri, Jun 11 Exam 01 released
No lab: work on Exam 01
Sun, June 13 Exam 01 due at 11:59pm
Week 06
Mon, June 14 Lab 05: Bootstrap estimation
Final project: introduction
Wed, June 16 The Central Limit Theorem
Thu, June 17 Inference with the CLT
Fri, June 18 Lab 06: Hypothesis testing
Week 07
Mon, June 21 Two-sample inference
More than two groups
Wed, June 23 NO CLASS
Homework 02 Assigned
Thu, June 24 NO CLASS
Fri, June 25 Lab 07: Two-sample inference
UNIT 3 Introductory modeling techniques
Week 08
Mon, June 28 Introducing linear models
Wed, June 30 Multiple linear regression (MLR)
Thu, July 1 MLR: Inference + conditions
Fri, July 2 Lab 08: Regression
Week 09
Mon, July 5 NO CLASS: Independence Day
Wed, July 7 Classification
Thu, July 8 Text analysis
Strings
Fri, July 9 No lab: work on Exam 02
Project proposals due at 11:59pm
Sunday, July 11 Exam 02 due at 11:59pm
Week 10
Mon, July 12 ANOVA
Homework 03 assigned
Wed, July 14 Spatial data and visualization
Thu, July 15 Web scraping
Fri, July 16 Project work day
Week 11
Mon, July 19 Project work day
Tuesday, July 20 Project write-ups due at 11:59pm
Wed, July 21 Project presentations I
Thu, July 22 Project presentations II