Programming with Data

Writing and evaluating code

• Read CIT §4.3
• Assignment 1

Sep. 7

No class

Sep. 9

Class 3

Asking questions

Sep. 11

Lab 1

Stormy weather

Functions and sequences

• Read CIT §8
• Read CIT §5–5.3
• Assignment 2

Sep. 14

Class 4

Functions

Sep. 16

Class 5

Data sequences

Sep. 18

Lab 2

Much ado about lists

Tabular data

• Read CIT §6–6.4
• Read CIT §7.1–7.3
• Assignment 3

Sep. 21

Class 6

Tables

Sep. 23

Class 7

Working with tabular data

Sep. 25

Lab 3

Candy analysis

End of Part 1

Sep. 28

Class 8

Review

Sep. 30

Class 9

Introduction to visualization

Oct. 2

Exam 1

Data cleaning

• Read CIT §8.1
• Assignment 4

Oct. 5

Class 10

Data exploration and visualization

Oct. 7

Class 11

Data sanitizing

Oct. 9

Lab 4

Life of a student

Combining perspectives

• Read CIT §8.2–8.3
• Read CIT §8.4
• Assignment 5

Oct. 12

Class 12

Grouping and aggregation

Oct. 14

Class 13

Joining datasets

Oct. 16

Lab 5

Movie time

October break

Oct. 19

🍁

Oct. 21

🍂

Oct. 23

🐿️

Seeing relationships

• Read CIT §2 and CIT §7
• Read CIT §8.5
• Assignment 6

Oct. 26

Class 14

Relating two variables

Oct. 28

Class 15

Advanced visualization

Oct. 30

Lab 6

Squirrels!

End of Part 2

• Read excerpts from System Error

Nov. 2

Class 16

Review

Nov. 4

Class 17

Case study: Privacy and data linking

Nov. 6

Exam 2

Iteration and simulation

• Read CIT §9–9.2
• Read CIT §9.3–9.5
• Assignment 7

Nov. 9

Class 18

Iteration

Nov. 11

Class 19

Simulation and probability

Nov. 13

Lab 7

Simulation and random choice

Sampling and prediction

• Read CIT §10–10.4
• Read CIT §15–15.2
• Assignment 8

Nov. 16

Class 20

Sampling and distributions

Nov. 18

Class 21

Prediction

Nov. 20

Lab 8

How faithful is Old Faithful?

Working with text

• Read CIT §17–17.5

Nov. 23

Class 22

Text classification

Nov. 25

Class 23

Case study: Large language models

Nov. 27

No lab

Dictionaries and data sources

• Assignment 9

Nov. 30

Class 24

Dictionaries

Dec. 2

Class 25

JSON and Web APIs

Dec. 4

Lab 9

The art of gathering data

End of Part 3

• ECS

Dec. 7

Class 26

Computational thinking and data science

Dec. 9

Lab 10

Review

Note that this is a Friday teaching day, so we meet at 1pm.

Dec. 11

📚

Final exams

Dec. 14–18

Exam 3

To be scheduled by the registrar.