DATASCI 112: Principles of Data Science

Dennis Sun, Stanford University, Winter 2023

The days highlighted in yellow are lecture days.
The days highlighted in blue are section days.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Date 01/09 01/10 01/11 01/12 01/13
Class Materials Course Overview Comparing COVID Rates
Date 01/16 01/17 01/18 01/19 01/20
Class Materials No Class - MLK Day Case Study - Earnings and Height Case Study - Earnings and Height continued
Date 01/23 01/24 01/25 01/26 01/27
Class Materials Exercises in Colab: Distances Between Observations Encoding Categorical Variables as Quantitative Scaling and Encoding Variables
Date 01/30 01/31 02/01 02/02 02/03
Class Materials Exam 1 REST APIs and JSON Web Scraping
Date 02/06 02/07 02/08 02/09 02/10
Class Materials Authorship of the Federalist Papers
  • The Gospels
  • Introduction to Machine Learning (in-class activity)
Date 02/13 02/14 02/15 02/16 02/17
Class Materials Evaluating Regression Models Practical Machine Learning in Scikit-Learn Model Selection and Hyperparameter Tuning Model Selection in Scikit-Learn Classification Problems and K-Nearest Neighbors
Date 02/20 02/21 02/22 02/23 02/24
Class Materials No Class - Presidents' Day Evaluating Classification Models Handwritten Digits Classification
Date 02/27 02/28 03/01 03/02 03/03
Class Materials Clustering in Practice and in Theory Combining Data Baby Names
Date 03/06 03/07 03/08 03/09 03/10
Class Materials Exam 2 Getting Comfortable with Latitude and Longitude (in-class activity, no need to prepare) Practice Making Maps
Date 03/13 03/14 03/15 03/16 03/17
Class Materials Making Dot Maps and Choropleths Guest Lecture: Alfred Spector and Peter Norvig (optional section) Get Feedback on Final Project Review and A Look Ahead
Date 03/20 03/21 03/22
Class Materials Project Presentation Session 1 (3:30 - 6:30 PM in 380-380F)

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