Course Schedule

Date	Topic
9/11	Introduction
9/14	Exploratory Data Analysis
9/16	Lab: Exploratory Data Analysis
9/18	Unsupervised Learning
9/21	Lab: Unsupervised Learning
9/23	Data Visualization
9/25	Guest Speaker: Kosuke Imai
9/28	Numerical Approaches to OLS
9/30	No class: Exploratory Data Analysis Project Group Meetings
10/2	Lab: Numerical Approaches to OLS★
10/5	Cross-Validation★ (2025)
10/7	Exploratory Data Analysis Project Poster Session
10/9	Lab: Cross-Validation★ (2025)
10/12	No class: reading period
10/14	Causal Inference, Potential Outcomes, and RCTs★ (2025)
10/16	No class: Mountain Day★
10/19	Subset Selection, Regularization, and Lasso (2025)
10/21	Lab: Lasso (2025)
10/23	Post Double Selection Lasso (2025)
10/26	Random Forests (2025)
10/28	Lab: Random Forests (2025)
10/30	No class: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Group Meetings
11/2	No class: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Group Meetings
11/4	Causal Forests, Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (2025)
11/6	Lab: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity (2025)
11/9	No class: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Group Meetings
11/11	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Presentations
11/13	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Presentations
11/16	Lab: Web Scraping, Regular Expressions (2025)
11/18	Word Frequencies, tf-idf (2025)
11/20	Lab: Word Frequencies, tf-idf (2025)
11/23	No class: Text as Data Project Group Meetings
11/25	Thanksgiving Break
11/27	Thanksgiving Break
11/30	Characterizing Documents (2025)
12/2	Lab: Characterizing Documents (2025)
12/4	No class: Text as Data Project Group Meetings
12/7	No class: Text as Data Project Group Meetings
12/9	Text as Data Project Presentations
12/11	Text as Data Project Presentations

Italics indicates no class meeting on that date.
Bold indicates student presentations on that date.
^★ indicates subject to change depending on the date of Mountain Day.