Course Schedule
Lectures are Wednesdays at 11:30am - 12:20pm in Boyd 208.
Office hours are held in Food Science, Rm 202, during lecture time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:10am - 12:25pm.
| Date | Topic | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1/13 | Lecture 1: Welcome to Data Science Practicum | pdf | pptx | video | cameo |
| Thurs, 1/14 | Lecture 2: Spark and Dask | pdf | pptx | video | ipynb |
| Thurs, 1/14 | Project 0 (P0) Released | |
| Tues, 1/19 | Lecture 3: Elastic Compute Crash Course | pdf | pptx | video |
| Wed, 1/20 | NO LECTURE - Inauguration | |
| Thurs, 1/21 | Lectures 4 and 5: Natural Language Processing and Naive Bayes with Large Vocabularies | l4_pdf | l4_pptx | l5_pdf | l5_pptx | video |
| Tues, 1/26 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 1/26 | P0 Due | |
| Wed, 1/27 | Lecture 6: Technical Debt in Machine Learning | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 1/28 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 1/28 | P1 Released | |
| Tues, 2/2 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/3 | Lecture 7: Introduction to Computer Vision | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 2/4 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 2/9 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/10 | Lecture 8: Ethics in Data Science | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 2/11 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 2/16 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/17 | INSTRUCTIONAL HOLIDAY - NO CLASS | |
| Tues, 2/18 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 2/18 | P1 Due | |
| Tues, 2/23 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 2/24 | P1 Lightning Talks | materials | video |
| Thurs, 2/25 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 2/25 | P2 Released | |
| Tues, 3/2 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/3 | Lecture 9: Guest Lecturer Christian McDaniel | video |
| Thurs, 3/4 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 3/9 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/10 | Lecture 10: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 3/11 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 3/16 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/17 | LECTURE CANCELED | |
| Thurs, 3/18 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 3/18 | P2 Due | |
| Tues, 3/23 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/24 | Lecture 11: Q-Learning and Real-time Strategy | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 3/25 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 3/30 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 3/31 | P2 Lightning Talks | materials | video |
| Thurs, 4/1 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 4/1 | P3 Released | |
| Tues, 4/6 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/7 | Lecture 12: Guest Lecturer Dr. Rob Hall | |
| Thurs, 4/8 | INSTRUCTIONAL HOLIDAY - NO CLASS | |
| Tues, 4/13 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/14 | Lecture 13: Guest Lecturer Eric Zavesky | video |
| Thurs, 4/15 | Office Hours | |
| Tues, 4/20 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/21 | Lecture 14: Course wrap-up | pdf | pptx | video |
| Thurs, 4/22 | Office Hours | |
| Thurs, 4/22 | P3 Due | |
| Tues, 4/27 | Office Hours | |
| Wed, 4/28 | P3 Lightning Talks | materials | video |
| Thurs, 4/29 | Office Hours |