STAT207 - Data Science Exploration
Fall 2023 - Ellison

Course Schedule

Before Lecture Materials

Before the lecture, zip files containing the Jupyter notebooks, csv files, and pdfs that we will markup can be found in the schedule below for the corresponding day. These should be posted at most 24 hours before the lecture starts.

Post Lecture Materials

After the lecture, copies of the pdfs that we marked up as well as the lecture video will be posted on Canvas within 24 hours.


Date Topics Materials Assignments
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Course Introduction
Course Introduction

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 1

Thursday, August 24, 2023 Unit 1: Missing Value Detection and Cleaning
01_Missing _Value_Data_Cleaning

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 Unit 2: Descriptive Analytics and Data Cleaning
02_Descriptive_Analytics_and_Data_Cleaning
Lab Assignment 1 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 2

Thursday, August 31, 2023 Lecture

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 Unit 3: Dataframe Manipulation and Text Analysis 03_Dataframe_Manipulation_and_Text_Analysis
Lab Assignment 2 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 3

Thursday, September 7, 2023 Lecture

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Unit 4u>: Machine Learning and Multiple Linear Regression Basics
04_ML_and_Multiple_Linear_Regression_Basics
Lab Assignment 3 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 4

Thursday, September 14, 2023 Unit 5: Evaluating Linear Regression for Machine Learning and Interpretability Purposes
05_Evaluating_Linear_Regression_for_ML_and_Interpretability

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Unit 6: Modified Linear Regression Models
06_Modified_Linear_Regression_Models
Lab Assignment 4 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 5

Thursday, September 21, 2023 Lecture

Friday, September 22, 2023

Mini-Project 1 Due
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 Midterm 1 Review
 (ONLINE)

Lab Assignment 5 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 6

Thursday, September 28, 2023 Midterm 1 Exam
 (IN-PERSON in 103 Mumford)


Friday, September 29, 2023

Mini-Project 1 Peer Evaluation Feedback Due
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 Unit 7: Feature Selection Algorithms - Part 1
07_Feature_Selection_Algorithms_Part1
Lab Assignment 6 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 7

Thursday, October 5, 2023 Unit 8: Feature Selection Algorithms Part 2 08_Feature_Selection_Algorithms_Part2

Tuesday, October 10, 2023 Unit 9: Cross-Validation Techniques
09_cross_validation
Lab Assignment 7 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 8

Thursday, October 12, 2023 Lecture

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 Lecture
10_logistic_regression_part1
Lab Assignment 8 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 9

Thursday, October 19, 2023 Unit 11: Logistic Regression Part 2 11_logistic_regression_part2

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Unit 12: Classification Part 1
12_classification_part1
Lab Assignment 9 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 10

Thursday, October 26, 2023 Unit 13: Classification - Part 2
13_classification_part2

Friday, October 27, 2023 Lecture
Mini-Project 2 Due
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 Midterm 2 Review
 (ONLINE)

Lab Assignment 10 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 11

Thursday, November 2, 2023 Midterm 2 Exam
 (IN-PERSON in 103 Mumford)

Friday, November 3, 2023

Mini-Project 2 Peer Evaluation Feedback Due
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 Unit 14: Modified Logistic Regression and Feature Selection
14_Modified_Logistic_Regression_and_Feature_Selection
Lab Assignment 11 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 Start Lab Assignment 12

Thursday, November 9, 2023 Lecture

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Unit 15: Introduction to Inference and Sampling Distributions
15_Inference_and_Sampling_Distributions

Lab Assignment 12 Due 11:59pm CST on Github
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Working on Projects in Lab

Thursday, November 16, 2023 Unit 16: Confidence Intervals
16_Confidence_Intervals

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 FALL BREAK - NO CLASSES

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 FALL BREAK - NO CLASSES

Thursday, November 23, 2023 FALL BREAK - NO CLASSES
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 Unit 17: Hypothesis Testing
FINAL UNIT 🎉

17_Hypothesis_Testing

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 Lab - Work on Project

Thursday, November 30, 2023 Lecture

Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Last Lecture Day
 Final Exam Review
 (ONLINE OR IN-PERSON 150 Animal Sciences Lab)

Final Group Project Reports Due 11:59pm CST
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 Final Group Project Presentations

Thursday, December 7, 2023 Reading Day

Friday, December 8, 2023
  8-11am CST
Final Exam
 (IN-PERSON, Gregory Hall 213)