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ScheduleandLectures
ThisisatentativescheduleforthetopicscoveredinCS109Fall2014,sothetopicsaresubjecttochange.

Tuesday

Thursday

Week
Introduction.Whatisdatascience?Whyisitimportant?Whoarewe?Courseoverview.Lecture1
1(9/1
(https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BAcgy0j0KEHclFFVV9pXy1UaXM/edit).HW0Assigned.
9/7)

StatisticalSummariesandExploratoryDataAnalysisLecture2a(lectures/02distributions.html).
IPythonNotebooksLecture2b
(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/Lecture02_readTable_plot.ipynb).

Week
VisualizationGoals,DataTypes,StatisticalGraphsLecture3
2(9/8
(https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IVstmtIvlHLTdTbXdEVENoRzQ/edit).HW1Assigned.
9/14)

VisualAttributes,Color,DesignPrinciplesLecture4a
(https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IVstmtIvlHWmstVV9xRXhxanc/edit).ExploringData:Examplesfrom
baseballandglobalincomeLecture4b(lectures/03hwkreview.html).

Week
3
VisualizationofMultiDimData,MapsandTextLecture5
(9/15 (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IVstmtIvlHeXN2bjB1bzRDTEk/edit).
9/21)

BigDataVisualizationLecture6a
(https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IVstmtIvlHZDdMRVlpVVE0TTg/edit).Distance,Clusteringand
DimensionalityReductionLecture6b(http://cs109.github.io/2014/pages/lectures/04distance.html).
HW1Due.

Week
4
DatascrapingLecture7(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_09_23
(9/22 lecture/data_scraping_transcript.ipynb).HW2Assigned.
9/28)

IntroductiontoStatisticalInferencewithElectionPollsLecture8
(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_09_25lecture/Lecture
Polls.ipynb).

Week
5
Statisticalmodeling,VarianceandSmoothingwithElectionPollsLecture9
(9/29 (http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_09_30lecture/LectureVariancePolls.ipynb).
10/5)

RegressionandPredictionLecture10
(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_10_02lecture/Lecture
RegressionPrediction.ipynb).HW2Due.

Week
IntroductiontoMachineLearningLecture11
Confounding.Lecture12slides(lectures/lecture12confounding.html).Lecture12notebook
6
(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/lecture11/Lecture11_Introduction_to_classification.ipynb). (http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_10_09lecture/Lecture12
(10/6
HW3Assigned.
Confounding.ipynb).
10/12)
Week
7
MatrixAlgebraLecture13slides(lectures/lecture13matrixalgebra.html).Lecture13notebook
(10/13 (http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_10_14lecture/Lecture13MatrixAlgebra.ipynb).
10/19)

BayesianStatisticsLecture14slides(lectures/lecture14bayesianstatistics.html).Lecture14
notebook(http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/cs109/2014/blob/master/lectures/2014_10_16
lecture/Lecture14BayesianStatistics.ipynb).HW3Due.

Week
8
DecisionTrees,ensemblelearningLecture15slidesandnotebook(https://drive.google.com/?
(10/20 tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).HW4Assigned.
10/26)

Ensemblelearning,performanceevaluationLecture16(https://drive.google.com/?
authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).

Week
9
SupportvectormachineandthekerneltrickLecture17slides(https://drive.google.com/?
(10/27 authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).
11/2)

Clusteringmethods:kmeans,meanshiftLecture18slides(https://drive.google.com/?
authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).HW4Dueon11/3.

Week
10
MrjobandmapreduceLecture19slides(https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).
(11/3 HW5Assigned.
11/9)

GraphVisualizationandStorytellingLecture20
(https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7IVstmtIvlHZFJXeDBnTy1kVjQ/edit).

Week
11
DeeplearningLecture21slides(https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s)
(11/10
11/16)

WrapupandoutlookLecture22slides(https://drive.google.com/?
tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0B7IVstmtIvlHbnFKbDlmdFFyU2s).HW5Due.

Week
12
Finalprojectreview
(11/17
11/23)

Finalprojectreview.

Week
13
Noclass.Thanksgiving
(11/24
11/30)

Noclass.Thanksgiving

Week
14
Noclass.FallReadingPeriod
(12/1
12/7)

Noclass.FallReadingPeriod

Week
15
Noclass.FallReadingPeriod
(12/8
12/14)

Noclass.FinalsPeriod

Week
16
Finalprojectpresentations
(12/15
12/21)

Finalprojectpresentations

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