Course materials for General Assembly's Data Science course in New York (6/1/16 - 8/15/16)
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Week | Date | Class | Due |
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0 | Onboarding | ||
Unit 1 - Research Design and Exploratory Data Analysis | |||
1 | 6/1 | What is Data Science | |
1 | 6/6 | Research Design and pandas | |
2 | 6/8 | Descriptive Statistics for Exploratory Data Analysis | Unit Project 1 due |
2 | 6/13 | Flexible Class Session: Exploratory Data Analysis | |
3 | 6/15 | Inferential Statistics for Model Fit | Unit Project 2 due |
Unit 2 - Foundations of Data Modeling | |||
3 | 6/20 | Introduction to Regression and Model Fit | Final Project 1 due |
4 | 6/22 | Introduction to Regression and Model Fit, Part 2 | |
4 | 6/27 | Introduction to Classification | |
5 | 6/29 | Introduction to Logistic Regression | Final Project 2 due |
5 | 7/6 | Advanced Metrics and Communicating Results | Unit Project 3 due |
6 | 7/11 | Flexible Class Session | |
Unit 3 - Data Science in the Real World | |||
6 | 7/13 | Decision Trees and Random Forests | Final Project 3 due |
7 | 7/18 | Natural Language Processing and Text Classification | |
7 | 7/20 | Latent Variables and Natural Language Processing | Unit Project 4 due |
8 | 7/25 | Time Series Data | |
8 | 7/27 | Time Series Data, Part 2 | |
9 | 8/1 | Introduction to Databases | Final Project 4 due |
9 | 8/3 | Wrapping Up and Next Steps | |
10 | 8/8 | Final Project Presentations | Final Project 5 due |
10 | 8/10 | Final Project Presentations, Part 2 |
(Syllabus last updated on 6/1/2016)
(Flexible class sessions will be finalized after student goals are defined)
Instructor: Anthony Erlinger
Expert-in-Residence: Zunayed Ali Morsalin
You've all been invited to use Slack for chat (channel #dat-37) during class and the day. Please consider this the primary way to contact other students. Bob will be on Slack during class and office hours to handle questions.