Course Schedule

Date	Topic
9/6	Introduction
9/11	Data
9/13	Exploratory Data Analysis
9/18	Data Visualization
9/20	Guest Speaker: Bilal Zia, Head of Data Science & Analytics, Duolingo
9/25	Data Visualization Group Meetings
9/27	Data Visualization Project Presentations
10/2	Numerical Approaches to OLS
10/4	Lab: Numerical Approaches to OLS
10/9	Cross-Validation
10/11	Mountain Day
10/11	Lab: Cross-Validation
10/16	Subset Selection, Regularization, and Lasso
10/23	Regression Trees and Random Forests
10/25	Predicting Infant Mortality Group Meetings
10/30	Predicting Infant Mortality Presentations
11/1	Predicting Infant Mortality Presentations
11/6	Causal Forests
11/8	k-Means Clustering
11/13	Intro to Text as Data, Regular Expressions, Web Scraping
11/15	Word Frequencies, Document-Term Matrices
11/20	Clustering Documents, Topic Models
11/22	Final Project Group Meetings
11/27	Thanksgiving Break
11/29	Thanksgiving Break
12/4	Final Project Presentations
12/6	Final Project Presentations

Italics indicates no class meeting on that date.
Bold indicates student presentations on that date.