This page lists the class lectures plus additional material (slides, notes) associated with each lecture. Recordings of all the classes will available on the course Canvas page.
Lectures from a previous offering (Fall 2019) are available on Panopto.
Lectures
Note: Lecture schedule, slides, and notes are subject to change.
| Date | Lecture | Slides | Notes | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Data collection and management | |||
| 1/19 Wed | 1: Introduction | pdf (inked) | |
| 1/24 Mon | 2: Data collection and scraping | pdf (inked) | |
| 1/26 Wed | 3: Jupyter Notebook lab | pdf (inked) | |
| 1/31 Mon | 4: Relational data | pdf (inked) | |
| 2/2 Wed | 5: Visualization and data exploration | pdf (inked) | |
| 2/7 Mon | 6: Vectors, matrices, and linear algebra | pdf (inked) | |
| 2/9 Wed | 7: (continued) | ||
| 2/14 Mon | 8: Graph and network processing | pdf (inked) | |
| 2/16 Wed | 9: Free text and natural language processing | pdf (inked) | |
| Statistical modeling and machine learning | |||
| 2/21 Mon | 10: Introduction to machine learning | pdf (inked) | |
| 2/23 Wed | (continued) | ||
| 2/28 Mon | 12: Linear classification | pdf (inked) | |
| 3/2 Wed | 13: (continued) | ||
| 3/7 Mon | No class: Spring Break | ||
| 3/9 Wed | No class: Spring Break | ||
| 3/14 Mon | 14: Nonlinear modeling, cross-validation | pdf (inked) | |
| 3/16 Wed | 15: (continued) | ||
| 3/21 Mon | 16: Basics of probability | pdf (inked) | |
| 3/23 Wed | 17: (continued) | ||
| 3/28 Mon | 18: Maximum likelihood estimation, naive Bayes | pdf (inked) | |
| 3/30 Wed | 19: Hypothesis testing and experimental design | pdf (inked) | none | 
| Advanced modeling techniques | |||
| 4/4 Mon | 20: Unsupervised learning | pdf (inked) | |
| 4/6 Wed | 21: Recommender systems | pdf (inked) | |
| 4/11 Mon | 22: Decision trees, interpretable models | pdf (inked) | none | 
| 4/13 Wed | 23: Deep learning | Preview: pdf | none | 
| 4/18 Mon | 24: (continued) | ||
| Additional topics | |||
| 4/20 Wed | 25: Big data and MapReduce methods | Preview: pdf | none | 
| 4/25 Mon | 26: Debugging data science | Preview: pdf | |
| 4/27 Wed | 27: The future of data science and Q&A | Preview: pdf | none |