DSC 223: Introduction to Data Science
This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the block. Note that this schedule will be updated as the block progresses, with all changes documented here.
| Day | Date | Topic | Slides | AE | Lab | HW | Exam | Project |
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| 1 | Mon, Sep 26 | Welcome and Toolkit Data Viz |
🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 📋📋📋 | 💻 | 📖 Chp 2 R4ds 📖 Sec 1.1,1.2 IMS 📖 Chp 3 R4ds Read CARVE Start HW 01 ✍️ |
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| 2 | Tue, Sep 27 | Tidy Data Data wrangling Data Frame |
🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 📋 | 💻 | Finish HW 01✍️ 📖 Chp 4 IMS 📖 Chp 5 IMS 📖 The Ethical Data Scientist |
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| 3 | Wed, Sep 28 | 📋 Ethical DS Ethics Discussion. Practice Tuesday content. No afternoon class. |
None | 💻 | 📖Tidy data 📖 Chp 13 R4ds 📖 Chp 12 R4ds 📖 Gelman 📖ASA Guidelines ✍️Complete HW 02 |
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| 4 | Thu, Sep 29 | Tidy data, wrangling, and data frames | 🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 📋 | 📖Chp 15 R4ds ✍️ Complete HW 03 |
📂Project Group Meeting | ||
| 5 | Fri, Sep 30 | Data frames, Data type and clasess. | 🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 📋 | 📖 Chp 11 R4ds ✍️ Work on HW 04 |
📂 Proposal Meetings. Afternoon class. | ||
| 6 | Mon, Oct 3 | Importing and recording data. Ethics Discussion on Gelman and ASA |
🖥️🖥️ | 📋 AE 06 | 💻 | ✍️Finish HW 04 📖Read Article 📖Chp 16.1-16.3 R4ds 📖Chp 6 IMS |
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| 7 | Tue, Oct 4 | Article Discussion. Effective Data Viz |
🖥️ | 📋 AE 07 | 💻 | 📖 Chp 7 R4ds 📖 Chp 2 IMS ✍️ Start HW 05 Install Google Chrome and Selector Gadget (will need in class) |
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| 8 | Wed, Oct 5 | Confounding, Simpsons paradox, and doing data science. | 🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 💻 | ✍️ Finish HW 05 | |||
| 9 | Thu, Oct 6 | Web scraping | 🖥️🖥️🖥️ | 📋 AE 08 | 💻 | Study | ||
| 10 | Fri, Oct 7 | Exam and Project | ✍️Start HW 06 HW 05 Solution |
✅ | 📂Project Update Meeting | |||
| 11 | Mon, Oct 10 | Functions & Iteration Exam Time |
🖥️ | ✍️Keep Working on HW 06 | ||||
| 12 | Tues, Oct 11 | The Language and Fitting of Models | 🖥️ | 💻💻 | ✍️Finish HW 06 📖Chp 7 IMS 📖Chp 8 IMS 🎥 Safiya Umoja Noble (30min) 📖Read Article Round 2 (3rd set of groups) |
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| 13 | Wed, Oct 12 | Data Science Ethics Ethics Discussion Round 2 Models with Multiple Predictors, Predicting and Overfitting |
🖥️ | 💻💻 | ✍️Start HW 07 📖Read Article Round 3 (3rd set of groups) |
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| 14 | Thu, Oct 13 | Ethics Discussion Round 3 Ethics Videos: Cambridge Analytica Facial Recognition Bias Police Algorithm If time, projects |
💻 | ✍️Keep Working on HW 07 📖tidymodels Build 📖tidymodels preprocess |
📂Time to work. | |||
| 15 | Fri, Oct 14 | Multiple Linear Regression, Prediction, and Overfitting | 🖥️ | 📋 AE 09 | 💻 | ✍️Finish HW 07 ✍️Start HW 08 |
📂Project Paper | |
| 16 | Mon, Oct 17 | Various Extra Topics | 🖥️ | ✍️Finish HW 08 | ||||
| 17 | Tue, Oct 18 | Project Pres. and Course Evals Take home made available |
📂Presentations and Executive Summaries | |||||
| 18 | Wed, Oct 19 | Final Exam Starts at 9am | ✅ |