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Fall 2021 - STAT207 Data Science Exploration
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Lecture Materials
- The links for the each new day's lecture will be available for printing/viewing an hour before class starts (at the latest 🤞) in the schedule below.
- COVID-19 NOTE: Due to potential unforeseen circumstances regarding COVID-19, this schedule may be subject to change. Please check back regularly. I will send email notifications if something on schedule has to change.
| Date | Topics | Materials | Assignments |
| Tuesday, August 24, 2021 | Introduction to the Course and the Data Science Pipeline | Introduction to Course 01_Intro_to_Python_and_Github Materials 02_Intro_to_the_Data_Science_Pipeline Materials |
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| Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 1 | ||
| Thursday, August 26, 2021 | Finishing: Unit 2 Unit 3: Introduction to Dataframe Manipulation and Data Cleaning |
03_Intro_to_the_Dataframe_Manipulation_and_Data_Cleaning Materials | |
| Tuesday, August 31, 2021 | Finishing: Unit 3 Unit 4: Descriptive Analytics for Numerical Variables |
Warmup 04_Descriptive_Analytics_for_Numerical_Variables Materials |
Lab 1 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, September 1, 2021 | Start Assignment Lab 2 | ||
| Thursday, September 2, 2021 | Unit 5: Probability and Random Sampling | 05_Probability_and_Random_Sampling Materials |
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| Tuesday, September 7, 2021 | Finishing: Unit 5 Unit 6: Creating Sampling Distributions Unit 7: Introduction to Random Variables |
06_Creating_Sampling_Distributions Materials |
Lab 2 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, September 8, 2021 | Start Assignment Lab 3 | ||
| Thursday, September 9, 2021 | Finishing: Unit 6 Unit 7: Introduction to Random Variables Unit 8: Common Random Variables and How to Use Them |
07_Intro_to_Random_Variables Materials 08_Common_Random_Variables_and_How_to_Use Materials Bumble Dating In-Class Exercise |
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| Tuesday, September 14, 2021 | Lab 3 due on Github 11:59pm CST. | ||
| Wednesday, September 15, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 4 | ||
| Thursday, September 16, 2021 | Unit 9:Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals | 09_Central_Limit_Theorem_and_Confidence_Intervals Materials |
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| Tuesday, September 21, 2021 | Unit 10: Hypothesis Testing | 10_Hypothesis_Testing Materials |
Lab 4 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 5 | ||
| Thursday, September 23, 2021 | Finishing: Unit 10 Unit 11: Inference for Associations |
Warm Up 11_Inference_for_Associations Materials |
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| Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | Midterm 1 Review | Lab 5 due on Github 11:59pm CST. | |
| Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 6 | ||
| Thursday, September 30, 2021 | NO CLASS Strongly encourage you to take this time to work on Midterm 1. |
Midterm 1 Takehome Emailed to Students at 3:30pm CST | |
| Friday, October 1, 2021 | Midterm 1 Takehome Due on Compass at 3:30pm CST | ||
| Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | Finishing Unit 11 | Inference_Summary |
Lab 6 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, October 6, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 7 | ||
| Thursday, October 7, 2021 | Unit 12: Simple Linear Regression | 12_simple_linear_regression Materials |
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| Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | Lecture | Lab 7 due on Github 11:59pm CST. | |
| Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 8 | ||
| Thursday, October 14, 2021 | Unit 13: Multiple Linear Regression | 13_Multiple_Linear_Regression Materials |
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| Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | Unit 14u>: ANOVA Unit 15u>: Logistic Regression - Part 1 | 14_ANOVA Materials 15_logistic_regression_part1 Materials |
Lab 8 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 9 | 16_logistic_regression_part2 Materials 17_Classification_and_ROC Materials |
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| Thursday, October 21, 2021 | Finishing Unit 15 Unit 16: Logistic Regression - Part 2 Unit 16: Classification and ROC |
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| Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | Unit 18: Training Data vs. Test Data | ANOVA Warmup 18_Train_Test Materials |
Lab 9 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 10 | ||
| Thursday, October 28, 2021 | Unit 19: Variable Selection for Logistic Regression | 19_Variable_Selection_for_Logistic_Regression Materials |
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| Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | Midterm 2 Review | Lab 10 due on Github 11:59pm CST. | |
| Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 11 | ||
| Thursday, November 4, 2021 | NO CLASS Strongly encourage you to take this time to work on Midterm 2. |
Midterm 2 Takehome Emailed to Students at 3:30pm CST | |
| Friday, November 5, 2021 | Midterm 2 Takehome Due on Compass at 3:30pm CST | ||
| Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | Unit 20: More Variable Selection Methods | 20_More_Variable_Selection_Methods Materials |
Lab 11 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | Start Lab Assignment 12 | ||
| Thursday, November 11, 2021 | Unit 21: Variable Selection for Linear Regression and Other Machine Learning Techniques | 21_Variable_Selection_Linear_Regression Materials |
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| Tuesday, November 16, 2021 | Unit 22: Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) | 22_Linear_Discriminant_Analysis Materials |
Lab 12 due on Github 11:59pm CST. |
| Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | Lab - Project Work | ||
| Thursday, November 18, 2021 | Unit 23: Principal Component Analysis | 23_Principal_Component_Analysis Materials |
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| Tuesday, November 23, 2021 | NO CLASS THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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| Wednesday, November 24, 2021 | NO CLASS THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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| Thursday, November 25, 2021 | NO CLASS THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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| Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | Unit 24: Support Vector Machines | 24_Support_Vector_Machines Materials |
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| Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | Lab - Project Work | ||
| Thursday, December 2, 2021 | Lecture | ||
| Tuesday, December 7, 2021 | Final Lecture - Review Session | ||
| Wednesday, December 8, 2021 | Lab - Project Presentations | ||
| Wednesday, December 15, 2021 | Final Exam Takehome Emailed to Students at 1:30pm CST | ||
| Thursday, December 16, 2021 | Final Exam Takehome Due on Compass at 1:30pm CST | ||
| Enjoy the holiday break! | |||