Tentative Course Schedule

Week Date Topic Reading
1 1/6 Logistics & Intro to DS PPT Doing DS Ch. 1 LINK
1/8 What is DS (Cont.) PPT BD in Practice ( Uber, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon)
1/10 Different types of data Notebook DS for Business Ch. 1 LINK
2 1/13 Exploratory DS Doing DS Ch. 2 LINK
1/15 Exploratory DS cont.
1/17 Examples
3 1/20 Holiday - No Class
1/22 Intro to data storage, SQL, etc.
1/24 Data storage cont.
4 1/27 Data acquisition
1/29 Data acquisition cont.
1/31 Data Acquisition examples (crawling, APIs)
5 2/3 Midterm 1
2/5 Intro to Data Cleaning
2/7 Intro to Data Integrations
6 2/10 Data cleaning / integration examples
2/12 Intro to Data Visualization
2/14 Intro to Data Visualization cont.
7 2/17 Holiday - No Class
2/19 Advanced Data Visualizations
2/21 Advanced Data Visualizations cont.
8 2/24 Intro to Data analysis
2/26 Unsupervised techniques
2/28 Supervised techniques
9 3/2 Feature selection
3/4 Parameter Tuning
3/6 Midterm 2
10 3/9 Boosting Methods
3/11 Debugging ML
3/13 Prof. attending conference