Semester Schedule

Week 1 (1/27)

• Wednesday:
  • Introductions
    • Zoom, Slack, Blackboard & the Syllabus
  • For next time:
    • Getting Started with GitHub, Markdown & Webstorm
• Friday:
  • Using GitHub & Markdown
  • For next time:
    • Installing Python & PyCharm

Week 2 (2/1)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: intro to Python
• Wednesday:
  • Getting Started with Python & PyCharm
• Friday: add/drop period ends
  • Getting Started with Python & PyCharm

Week 3 (2/8)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: data pipeline
• Wednesday:
  • Open session, workshop & review
• Friday: Spring Break Day, no class (2/12)
  • Project 1 upload your response to your GitHub page by midnight on Wednesday, February 17th

Week 4 (2/15)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: descriptive Analysis etc...
• Wednesday:
  • Module 1
  • Project 1 due by midnight
• Friday:
  • Module 2

Week 5 (2/22)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: regression
• Wednesday:
  • Module 2
• Friday:
  • Module 2

Week 6 (3/1)

• Monday:
  • Module 2
• Wednesday:
  • Module 3
  • Project 2 due by midnight
• Friday:
  • Module 3

Week 7 (3/8)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: regularization
• Wednesday:
  • Module 3
• Friday:
  • Module 3

Week 8 (3/15)

• Monday:
  • Review, no "common" meeting
• Tuesday
  • Project 3 due by midnight
• Wednesday: Spring Break Day, No Class (3/17)
• Thursday:
  • Mid-term project begins -- 8AM
• Friday:
  • Mid-term continues
• Sunday:
  • Mid-term project due

Week 9 (3/22)

• Monday:
  • Mid-term project corrections
• Wednesday:
  • Mid-term project corrections
• Friday:
  • Mid-term project corrections

Week 10 (3/29)

• Monday:
  • Lecture: decision trees & random forest
• Wednesday:
  • Professor ill, class cancelled
• Friday:
  • Introduce kNN

Week 11 (4/5)

• Monday:
  • Review kNN
• Wednesday: Spring Break Day, no class (4/7)
• Friday:
  • Common Lecture: Ron Smith - clustering techniques: AHC, k-means & DBSCAN

Week 12 (4/12)

• Monday:
  • Logistic regression
  • Project 5 assigned
• Wednesday:
  • Decision trees and random forest
• Friday:
  • ...
• Sunday
  • Project 5 due by midnight

Week 13 (4/19)

• Monday:
  • ...
• Wednesday:
  • ...
• Friday:
  • ...

Week 14 (4/26)

• Monday: Spring Break Day, no class
• Wednesday:
  • ...
• Friday:
  • ...

Week 15 (5/3)

• Monday:
  • Final Project
• Wednesday:
  • Final Project
• Friday: Last day of class
  • Final Project

Final

• Final Project is due on the last day of the finals period at 5PM.