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	Lab 1A due Lab 2B assigned

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

Week 5

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	4/27	Evaluating Regression Models slides | colab	Spurious Correlations
Tue	4/28	Predicting House Prices
Wed	4/29	Model Selection and Hyperparamer Tuning slides | colab		Lab 3A due
Thu	4/30	Evaluating House Price Models
Fri	5/1	Classification and K-Nearest Neighbors slides | colab		Lab 4A assigned

Week 6

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	5/4	Distances and Classification slides | colab		Lab 3B due
Tue	5/5	Grid Search	Regression Trees (video)
Wed	5/6	Evaluating Classification Models slides | colab		Lab 4A assigned
Thu	5/7	Handwritten Digit Classification
Fri	5/8	K-Means Clustering slides | colab

Week 7

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	5/11	Hierarchical Data slides | colab		Lab 4B assigned
Tue	5/12	Predicting Online Shopping Behavior
Wed	5/13	Web Scraping slides | colab	Tarpits to trick and trap AI scrapers	Lab 4A due
Thu	5/14	Document Clustering Image Compression Using Clustering
Fri	5/15	Principal Component Analysis slides | colab

Week 8

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	5/18	Exam 2 (TBD)		Lab 5A assigned Final Project Survey assigned
Tue	5/19	Ensemble Methods
Wed	5/20	Combining Data slides | colab		Lab 4B due
Thu	5/21	Scraping Data from REST APIs
Fri	5/22	Types of Joins slides | colab		Lab 5B assigned Final Project Survey due

Week 9

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	5/25	Memorial Day (no class)
Tue	5/26	Getting Comfortable with Latitude and Longitude		Lab 5A due
Wed	5/27	Map Projections and Dot Maps slides | colab
Thu	5/28	Shapefiles and Two Dot Map Mysteries Practice Making Choropleths
Fri	5/29	Chloropleths slides | colab		Lab 5B due Lab 6A assigned

Week 10

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	6/1	TBD		Lab 6B assigned
Tue	6/2	Baby Names
Wed	6/3	Looking Back, Looking Ahead slides
Thu	6/4	Poster Session #1: 1:00-4:30PM
Fri	6/5			Lab 6A due

Finals Week

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Labs
Mon	6/8
Tue	6/9
Wed	6/10	Poster Session #2: 8:30-11:30AM
Thu	6/11
Fri	6/12			Lab 6B due