Schedule


Week Session Day Date Topic
1 1 Th 08/29 Course Overview & Introduction to the Data Science Lifecycle
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2   M 09/02 Labor Day - no classes (Tuesday follows Monday schedule)
2 2 Tu 09/03 Python Basics
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Assignment 1 due 09/17
2 3 Th 09/05 Python Basics
3 4 M 09/09 Python conditionals, loops, functions, aggregating.
3 5 Th 09/12 Python conditionals, loops, functions, aggregating (continued)
Assignment 2 due 09/26
4 6 M 09/16 Python visualization, data manipulation , and feature creation.
4 7 Th 09/19 Python visualization, data manipulation , and feature creation (continued)
Assignment 3 due 10/03
5 8 M 09/23 Visualization with Tableau
5 9 Th 09/26 Visualization with Tableau
Assignment 4 due 10/10
6 10 M 09/30 Introduction to R
6 11 Th 10/03 Introduction to R
Assignment 5 due 10/17
7 12 M 10/07 Overview of Modeling
7 13 Th 10/10 Overview of Modeling
Assignment 6 due 10/24
8 14 M 10/14 Review/Kaggle Project Introduction
8 15 Th 10/17 Midterm
Assignment 7 due 10/31
9 16 M 10/21 Classification
9 17 Th 10/24 Classification
10 18 M 10/28 Regression
10 19 Th 10/31 Regression
11 20 M 11/04 Text and NLP
11 21 Th 11/07 Text and NLP
12 22 M 11/11 Introduction to Big Data
Assignment 8 due 11/25
12 23 Th 11/14 Time Series Analysis
13 24 M 11/18 Image Data and Deep Learning
13 25 Th 11/21 Image Data and Deep Learning
14 26 M 11/25 Automl and Modeling Packages
14   Th 11/28 Thanksgiving
15 27 M 12/02 Automl and Model Search
15 28 Th 12/05 Final Presentations
16 29 M 12/09 Final Presentations
17   TBD TBD Final Exam