Schedule

Week 1

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials Labs
Mon 3/30 Introduction to Data
slides | colab
Tue 3/31 Introduction to Notebooks and Colab
Wed 4/1 Relationships between Categorical Variables
slides | colab
Lab 1A assigned
Thu 4/2 Comparing COVID Fatalities
Fri 4/3 Quantitative Variables
slides | colab
"The Shock of the Mean" Lab 1B assigned

Week 2

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials Labs
Mon 4/6 Split-Apply-Combine Paradigm
slides | colab
Tue 4/7 Who is Faster -- Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps
Wed 4/8 Multivariate Data and the Grammar of Graphics
slides | colab
Lab 2A assigned
Thu 4/9 2000 U.S. Presidential Election in Florida
Fri 4/10 Distances between Observations
slides | colab
Challenger Data Analysis
Challenger Data Reading

Week 3

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials Labs
Mon 4/13 Encoding Categorical Variables as Quantitative
slides | colab
Sparse matrix (Wikipedia) Lab 1B due
Tue 4/14 Cars and Fuel Efficiency
Wed 4/15 Textual Data and the Bag-of-Words Representation
slides | colab
Thu 4/16 Recommending Colleges
Fri 4/17 Vector Space Model and TF-IDF
slides | colab
Lab 2A due

Week 4

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials Labs
Mon 4/20 Exam 1 (in class) Lab 3A assigned
Tue 4/21 Matching Dating Profiles
Wed 4/22 Introduction to Machine Learning
slides | colab
Lab 2B due
Thu 4/23 Who Wrote the Gospels Synoptic Gospels
Fri 4/24 K-Nearest Neighbors
slides | colab
Lab 3B assigned