Schedule

Week 1

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

Week 2

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		The Split-Apply-Combine Paradigm slides | colab
Tues		Who's Faster -- Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps?
Wed		Multivariate Data and the Grammar of Graphics slides | colab		Lab 1A Due Lab 2A Assigned
Thurs		2000 U.S. Presidential Election in Florida
Fri		Distances between Observations slides | colab	Challenger Data Analysis Challenger Data Reading	Lab 1B Due Lab 2B Assigned

Week 3

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		MLK Day (no class)
Tue		Cars and Fuel Efficiency
Wed		Encoding Categorical Variables as Quantitative slides | colab	Sparse matrix (Wikipedia)
Thu		Recommending Colleges
Fri		Textual Data and the Bag-of-Words Representation slides | colab		Lab 2A Due

Week 4

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		The Vector Space Model and TF-IDF slides | colab		Lab 2B Due Lab 3A Assigned
Tue		Matching Dating Profiles
Wed		Exam 1 (in Hewlett 201)
Thu		Who Wrote the Gospels?	Synoptic Gospels
Fri		Introduction to Machine Learning slides | colab		Lab 3B Assigned

Week 5

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		K-Nearest Neighbors slides | colab
Tue		Predicting House Prices
Wed		Evaluating Regression Models slides | colab	Spurious Correlations	Lab 3A Due [solutions]
Thu		Evaluating House Price Models
Fri		Model Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning slides | colab		Lab 4A Assigned

Week 6

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		Guest Lecture: Martina Fu (Stanford Epidemiology)		Lab 3B Due
Tue		Grid Search	Regression Trees (video)
Wed		Classification and K-Nearest Neighbors slides | colab Talk about final project		Lab 4B Assigned
Thu		Handwritten Digit Classification
Fri		Evaluating Classification Models slides | colab		Lab 4A Due

Week 7

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		Presidents' Day (no class)
Tue		Predicting Online Shopping Behavior
Wed		Unsupervised Learning and K-Means Clustering slides | colab
Thu		Document Clustering Image Compression Using Clustering
Fri		Hierarchical Data slides | colab	Lab 4B Due

Week 8

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		Web Scraping slides | colab	Tarpits to trick and trap AI scrapers
Tue		Ensemble Models		Lab 5A assigned
Wed		Exam 2 (in Hewlett 201 or CoDa B60)
Thu		Scraping Data from REST APIs
Fri		Data Privacy and Exam Scores colab	Fill out the Final Project survey. Apply to be a CA!	Lab 5B assigned

Week 9

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		Guest Lecture: Alison Lu (San Francisco 49ers)
Tues		Getting Comfortable with Latitude and Longitude		Lab 5A due
Wed		Map Projections and Dot Maps slides | colab	Riding with the Stars: Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset John Snow's data journalism: the cholera map that changed the world	Final Project survey due
Thurs		Shapefiles and Two Dot Map Mysteries
Fri		Choropleths slides | colab		Lab 5B due Optional Lab 6A assigned

Week 10

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon		Combining Data slides | colab
Tue		Baby Names		Optional Lab 6B assigned
Wed		Types of Joins slides | colab
Thu		Movie Ratings
Fri		Looking Back, Looking Ahead slides	B.A. Requirements B.S. Requirements Minor Requirements	Optional Lab 6A due

Finals Week

Date		Class Materials	Supplemental Materials	Lab
Mon
Tue		Poster Session 7-10 PM in CoDa E160
Wed				Optional Lab 6B due
Thu
Fri		Poster Session 9-11:30 AM in Sequoia Courtyard