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 AE HW Exam Project
Week 01
Monday, Sep. 12 Welcome to Data Science
Wednesday, Sep. 14 Meet the Toolkit + Installation
UNIT 1 Collecting, wrangling, & visualizing data
Friday, Sep. 16 Data and visualization + HW 01 assigned
GitHub Desktop
Week 02
Monday, Sep. 19 Visualizing different types of data
Tuesday, Sep. 20 HW 01 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Sep. 21 Tidy data and data wrangling + HW 02 assigned
Friday, Sep. 23 Tidy data and data wrangling cont.
Week 03
Monday, Sep. 26 In-class data wrangling
Reshaping
Tuesday, Sep. 27 HW 02 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Sep. 28 Joining data from multiple sources
HW 03 assigned
Friday, Sep. 30 Introduction to probability
Week 04
Monday, Oct. 3 Conditional Probability
Tuesday, Oct. 4 HW 03 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Oct. 5 Confounding and Simpson's Paradox
HW 04 assigned
Friday, Oct. 7 Strings
Week 05
Monday, Oct. 10 Final project: introduction
Practice Midterm
Office Hours change: 10:30am-12:00pm
Tuesday, Oct. 11 HW 04 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Oct. 12 Practice midterm
Friday, Oct. 14 No class
UNIT 2 Making rigorous conclusions
Week 06
Monday, Oct. 17 Midterm (take-home) released at 10:00am. No class.
Wednesday, Oct. 19 Midterm due at 12:00pm (noon)
Wednesday, Oct. 19 Estimation via Bootstrap
Friday, Oct. 21 Estimation via Bootstrap (cont.)
HW 05 assigned
Week 07
Monday, Oct. 24 Simulation-based testing: Part 1
Tuesday, Oct. 25
Wednesday, Oct. 26 Simulation-based testing: Part 1 (Live code)
Thursday, October 27 Stats candidate job talk (12:30-1:30pm)
Friday, Oct. 28 Simulation-based testing: Part 2
Week 08
Monday, Oct. 31 Live code
Tuesday, Nov. 1 HW 05 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Nov. 2 Two-sample inference: difference in means
HW 06 assigned
Stats candidate job talk (12:30-1:30pm)
Friday, Nov. 4 Two-sample inference: difference in proportions
Deadline for drop/add
Saturday, Nov. 5 E-mail professor about project partner
UNIT 3 Introductory modeling techniques
Week 09
Monday, Nov. 7 Two-sample inference: difference in proportions (cont.)
Tuesday, Nov. 8 HW 06 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Nov. 9 Project work day
HW 07 assigned
Stats candidate job talk (12:30-1:30pm)
Friday, Nov. 11 Linear models
Week 09
Monday, Nov. 14 Linear models (cont.)
Tuesday, Nov. 15 HW 07 due at 11:59pm
Wednesday, Nov. 16 Linear regression: conditions
HW 08 assigned
Friday, Nov. 18 Project work day
Project proposals due at 11:59pm
Week of Nov. 21 Thanksgiving break
Week 11
Monday, Nov. 28 Project work day. No in-person class and no office hours.
Wednesday, Nov. 30 Multiple linear regression (MLR)
HW 08 due at 11:59pm
Friday, Dec. 2 Project work day
Project draft due at 11:59pm
Week 12
Monday, Dec. 5 Spatial data visualization
Wednesday, Dec. 7 Project work day
Course reponse forms!
Thursday, Dec. 8 Projects due 11:59pm
Friday, Dec. 9 Project presentations
Monday, Dec. 12 Project presentations cont.