DATA 133: Introduction to Data Science I

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DATA 133: Introduction to Data Science I -- Schedule (fall2024)

Tentative - subject to change as course progresses

Date Description Weeks
9/3/2024, 9/5/2024Introduction to Data Science
Introduction to R environment and basics
Week 1
9/10/2024, 9/12/2024Quiz 1. Get data IN and OUT of R
Subsetting R objects
Week 2
9/17/2024, 9/19/2024Quiz 2. Control structure of RWeek 3
9/24/2024, 9/27/2024Quiz 3. Functions of R.Week 4
10/1/2024, 10/3/2024Quiz 4. Simulating and Plot of RWeek 5
10/8/2024, 10/10/2024Catch-up and Review
Mid-term exam
Week 6
10/15/2024, 10/17/2024Guest lecture for Ethics. Introduction to Python, basic environment, Jupyter notebook
Number and Strings. Invited lecture for final project - Business Data analysis
Week 7
10/22/2024, 10/24/2024Quiz 5. Introduction to Python - List and function
Introduction to Python - Control flow
Week 8
10/29/2024, 10/31/2024Quiz 6. Introduction to Python - I/O
Visualizing data using Python
Week 9
11/5/2024, 11/7/2024Quiz 7. Linear Algebra
Statistics
Week 10
11/12/2024, 11/14/2024Quiz 8. ProbabilityWeek 11
11/19/2024, 11/21/2024Invited lecture from Prof. Edgar Twitter bot. Catch-up and ReviewWeek 12
11/26/2024, Thanksgiving breakGetting Data: HTML Crawling and API’s I; Getting Data: HTML Crawling and API’s II
Catch-up and Review
Week 13
12/3/2024, 12/5/2024Selected topic and reviewsWeek 14
Final exam weekTuesday, December 10th, 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.Week 15