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
  1. Document Clustering
  2. 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