Lectures

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The lecture schedule will be updated as the term progresses.

Pre-course

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Computation: Python & Tables

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
Tue, Jan 21, 2025	Lecture 1 Course Introduction Correlation & Causation [slides]	Chapter 1 - What is Data Science? Chapter 2 - Causality and Experiments Jeannette M. Wing, Computational Thinking	Lab 0 - Python Intro (Due Fri, Jan 24, 2025) HW 0 - Causality and Expressions (Due Wed, Jan 29, 2025)
Thu, Jan 23, 2025	Lecture 2 Data Types, Expressions [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 3.1 - 3.3: Programming in Python Chapter 4: Data Types
Tue, Jan 28, 2025	Lecture 3 Tables, Arrays, & Sequences [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 3.4: Introduction to Tables Chapter 5: Sequences	Lab 1 - Table operations (Due Fri, Jan 31, 2025) HW 1 - Arrays and Tables (Due Wed, Feb 5, 2025)
Tue, Jan 28, 2025	Last Day to Register
Wed, Jan 29, 2025	End of Add period
Thu, Jan 30, 2025	Lecture 4 More Tables [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 6: Tables

Exploration

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
Tue, Feb 4, 2025	Lecture 5 Visualization [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 7 (intro): Visualization Chapter 7.1 Categorical Distributions	Lab 2 - Data Types and Arrays (Due Fri, Feb 7, 2025) HW 2 - Table Manipulation and Visualization (Due Wed, Feb 12, 2025)
Thu, Feb 6, 2025	Lecture 6 Histograms [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 7.2 Numerical Distributions Chapter 7.3 Overlaid Graphs
Fri, Feb 7, 2025	Last day to drop
Tue, Feb 11, 2025	Lecture 7 Functions & Apply, Group, Pivot [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 8. Functions and Tables Chapter 8.1 Applying Functions to a Column	Lab 3 - Functions and Visualizations (Due Fri, Feb 14, 2025) HW 3 - Functions, Tables, and Groups (Due Wed, Feb 19, 2025)
Thu, Feb 13, 2025	Lecture 8 Pivot, Joins, & Comparisons [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 8. Functions and Tables	Project 1 (Due Fri, Feb 28, 2025)
Tue, Feb 18, 2025	Lecture 9 Comparisons Control Statements (If, For) & Randomness [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 9 Randomness (9, 9.1, 9.2)	Lab 4 - Simulations (Due Fri, Feb 21, 2025) HW 4 - Applying Functions and Iteration (Due Wed, Feb 26, 2025)

Inference

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
Thu, Feb 20, 2025	Lecture 10 Control Statements (loops) Randomess Simulations [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 9.2 Iteration Chapter 9.3 Simulation
Tue, Feb 25, 2025	Lecture 11 Monty Hall Probability [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 9.4 - The Monty Hall Problem Chapter 9.5 - Finding Probabilites	HW 5 - Probability, Simulation, Estimation, and Assessing Models (Due Fri, Mar 7, 2025)
Thu, Feb 27, 2025	Lecture 12 Sampling, & Distributions [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 10 - Sampling and Empirical Distributions Chapter 11.1 - Assessing a Model
Fri, Feb 28, 2025	Last day to declare Cr/NC
Tue, Mar 4, 2025	Lecture 13 Statistic, Hypothesis Testing [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 10.3 - Empirical Distribution of a Statistic Chapter 11.1 - Testing Hypotheses	Lab 5 - Examining the Therapuetic Touch (Due Fri, Mar 7, 2025) HW 6 - Testing Hypotheses (Due Wed, Mar 19, 2025)
Thu, Mar 6, 2025	Lecture 14 Comparing Distributions & Measuring Uncertainty [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 11.2 - Multiple Categories Chapter 11.3 - Decisions and Uncertainty Chapter 11.4 - Error Probabilities

Tue, Mar 11, 2025	Spring Break
Thu, Mar 13, 2025	Spring Break
Tue, Mar 18, 2025	Lecture 15 A/B Testing [slides] [completed notebook]	Chapter 12 - Comparing Two Samples	Lab 6 - Great British Bake Off (A/B Test) (Due Fri, Mar 21, 2025)
Thu, Mar 20, 2025	Lecture 16 Causality and Estimation Variability [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 13 - 13.1 - Estimation
Tue, Mar 25, 2025	Lecture 17 Bootstrap Confidence Interval [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 13.2 - Bootstrap Chapter 13.3 - Confidence Intervals	Project 2 (Due Fri, Apr 11, 2025)
Thu, Mar 27, 2025	Lecture 18 Midterm
Fri, Mar 28, 2025	Last day to withdraw
Tue, Apr 1, 2025	Lecture 19 Confidence Intervals Center and Spread Standard Deviations and Normal Distributions [slides] [completed notebook]	Chapter 13.2 - Bootstrap Chapter 13.3 - Confidence Intervals Chapter 14. Why the Mean Matter	Lab 7 - Normal Distribution and Variance of Sample Means (Due Thu, Apr 3, 2025) HW 7 - Confidence Intervals, The Bootstrap, and The Central Limit Theorem (Due Wed, Apr 9, 2025)

Prediction

Date	Topic	Reading	Assignment
Thu, Apr 3, 2025	Lecture 20 Correlation Nearest Neighbor Regression [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 15. Prediction (introduction) Chapter 15.1 Correlation
Tue, Apr 8, 2025	Lecture 21 Linear Regression Least Squares & Residuals [slides] [empty notebook] [completed notebook]	Chapter 15. Prediction (15.2 - 15.6)	Lab 8 - Regression (Due Mon, Apr 14, 2025) HW 8 - Sample Size & Confidence Intervals (Due Wed, Apr 16, 2025)
Thu, Apr 10, 2025	Lecture 22 NO CLASS		HW 9 - Regression Inference (Due Wed, Apr 23, 2025)
Tue, Apr 15, 2025	Lecture 23 NO CLASS		Project 3: Movie Classification (Due Fri, May 2, 2025)
Thu, Apr 17, 2025	Lecture 24 NO CLASS		HW 10 (Due Wed, Apr 30, 2025)
Tue, Apr 22, 2025	Lecture 25 Regression Inference	Chapter 16. Inference for Regression
Thu, Apr 24, 2025	Lecture 26 Classification	Chapter 17 - Classification Chapter 17.1 - Nearest Neighbors Chapter 17.2 - Training and Testing Chapter 17.3 - Rows of Tables
Tue, Apr 29, 2025	Lecture 27 Classification		HW 11 - Classification (Due Fri, May 2, 2025)
Thu, May 1, 2025	Lecture 28 Review
Wed, May 7, 2025	Final Old Library 116 9:30am - 12:00pm