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Weekly Schedule

Week 0 - Introductions

Oct 1
Lecture 0: Welcome to the course

Week 1

Oct 5
Oct 6
Lecture 1: Data Science Mindset / Biases
1.2, 1.3, 2
Oct 7
Lab Lab01: Expressions
Oct 8
Lecture 2: Variables, expressions, Jupyter notebooks
3, 4.1, 4.2
Oct 9

Week 2

Oct 12
Oct 13
Lecture 3: Functions, strings, arrays, ranges
3, 4.1, 4.2, 5
Oct 14
Lab Lab02: Data Types
Lab 1 due
Oct 15
Lecture 4: Arrays and Ranges;
Critical Thinking and Logical Fallacies
PA PA01: Logical Fallacies post on Piazza
Oct 16

Week 3

Oct 19
HW01: will be released on Friday Oct 23
Oct 20
Lecture 5: Tables
Ch. 6
/ PA 1 due
Oct 21
Lab Lab03: Tables
Lab 2 due
Oct 22
Lecture 6: Cause and Effect; Tables
Ch. 2
Oct 23
HW HW01: Expressions and Causality
Oct 24
PA PA02: Welcome Survey

Week 4

Oct 26
Oct 27
Lecture 7: Defining functions
Section 8
Oct 28
Deadline to Drop Courses without a “W”
PA 2 due
Lab 3 due
Lab Lab04: Functions
Oct 29
Lecture 8: applying functions to tables
Section 8.1
Oct 30
Oct 31
Halloween
HW 1 due
Nov 1
Daylight Saving Time ends “Spring forward, fall back”

Week 5

Nov 2
HW HW02
Nov 3
Election Day (General Election)
PA 3: Vote
Lecture 9: Visualization (led by Sean J.)
7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Nov 4
Lab Lab05: Visualization
Lab 4 due
Nov 5
Lecture 10: Guest lecture + np.random, np.count_nonzero
Section 9
Nov 6

Week 6

Nov 9
Nov 10
Lecture 11: Summary of Table Methods; Randomness + Loops
9, 9.1, 9.2
Nov 11
No classes - Veterans’ Day
Lab 5 due
Lab Lab06: Group, Join, Conditionals, Randomness
Nov 12
Lecture 12: Simulation and control statements
9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Nov 13
Nov 14

Week 7

Nov 16
Nov 17
Lecture 13: ML and Classification
17
Nov 18
Lab Lab07: Classification
Lab 6 due
Nov 19
Lecture 14: Review Classification with tutors
17
Nov 20

Week 8

Nov 23
Nov 24
Lecture 15: k-Nearest Neighbors
videos in Piazza post
ProjectProject 1: Classification
Nov 25
Lab Lab08: k-Nearest Neighbors
Lab 7 due
Nov 26
HOLIDAY (no classes) - Thanksgiving
Nov 27
No Classes! Happy Thanksgiving!

Week 9

Nov 30
Dec 1
Lecture 16: A panel with the UCSB DS Fellows
Dec 2
Lab
Project Draft due
Dec 3
Lecture 17: Guest speaker
Dec 4
Project 1 due
Lab 8 due
Dec 5
Dec 6
HW HW 2 assigned

Week 10

Dec 7

Dec 8
Lecture 18:
Dec 9
Project Project 2 is assigned
Dec 10
Lecture 19: A panel with the former DS 1 tutors
Dec 11
HW 2 due

Week 11 - Final Exams

Dec 14
Dec 15
Dec 16
Dec 17
Dec 18
Last day of Fall 2020 quarter
Project 2 due