Schedule

Here’s your roadmap for the semester!

  • Readings should be completed before each class session
  • Class materials (slides, in-class activities, etc.) will be added on the day of class
  • Assignments are due by 11:59 PM on the day they are due

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Week 1 (8/25) Introduction to Data Science tools: R, Python, Markdown, Git, command line tools
Week 2 (9/1) Version Control & Reproducible Research
Week 3 (9/8) Exploratory data analysis
Week 4 (9/15) Data visualization
Week 5 (9/22) Data cleaning and wrangling
Week 6 (9/29) Text Mining
Week 7 (10/6) Scraping, APIs, and Regular Expressions
Week 8 (10/13) Fall Recess (No class). Midterm Exam
Week 9 (10/20) (Midterm Exam due) High performance computing, cloud computing
Week 10 (10/27) Managing big data, SQL and non-SQL languages, Google BigQuery
Week 11 (11/3) Interactive visualization and effective data communication I
Week 12 (11/10) Veterans Day (No class)
Week 13 (11/17) Interactive visualization and effective data communication II
Week 14 (11/24) Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 15 (12/1) Final project workshop: review progress
Week 16 (12/8) Final Project