Schedule
Note
We’ve marked future assignments as TBD to allow us to adjust the pacing as needed.
In total, we’ll aim to cover in total: ~4-5 HWs and ~6-7 labs
| Week | Date | Content | Assignment Due? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon Jan 5 | Course Intro | N/A |
| 1 | Tues Jan 6 | Laptop setup, Github Clasroom workflow, quarto, Python notebooks |
push lab 01 at least once |
| 1 | Wed Jan 6 | Python essentials, dataframes, meet polars |
push updated lab 01 at least once |
| 2 | Mon Jan 12 | Two cultures of statistics, sampling theory | skim readings for Wed Jan 14 |
| 2 | Tues Jan 13 | Data visualization, meet seaborn & matplotlib |
push lab 02 at least once |
| 2 | Wed Jan 14 | What is a model? Model-based thinking | push HW 1 by Tues Jan 20 |
| 3 | Mon Jan 19 | No class holiday | - |
| 3 | Tues Jan 20 | HW 1 review; Python Q&A | push HW 1 by 1pm |
| 3 | Wed Jan 21 | Hypothesis testing as model comparison | - |
| 4 | Mon Jan 26 | Statistics for Hackers: Resampling approaches | N/A |
| 4 | Tues Jan 27 | Monte-carlo simulation & bootstrap resampling | push lab 03 at least once |
| 4 | Wed Jan 28 | Permutation testing & cross-validation | push HW 2 by Midnight Mon Feb 1 |
| 5 | Mon Feb 2 | No class, prospective interviews | N/A |
| Week | Date | Content | Assignment Due? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Tues Feb 3 | HW 2 review; GLM Foundations | - |
| 5 | Wed Feb 4 | GLM II | TBD |
| 6 | Mon Feb 9 | Modeling, meet bossanova |
push lab at least once |
| 6 | Tues Feb 10 | Models as tools: inference, prediction, exploration | push lab at least once |
| 6 | Wed Feb 11 | Final Project planning | chat with instructors before leaving |
| 7 | Mon Feb 16 | No class holiday | - |
| 7 | Tues Feb 17 | Extending the GLM | push lab at least once |
| 7 | Wed Feb 18 | LMM I | push HW 3 by Midnight Mon Feb 23 |
| 8 | Mon Feb 23 | LMMs II | - |
| 8 | Tues Feb 24 | HW 3 review | - |
| 8 | Wed Feb 25 | TBD | push HW 4 by Midnight Mar 2 |
| 9 | Mon Mar 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 9 | Tues Mar 3 | HW 4 reivew; TBD | TBD |
| 9 | Wed Mar 4 | TBD | TBD |
| 10 | Mon Mar 9 | final project time | - |
| 10 | Tues Mar 10 | final project time | - |
| 10 | Wed Mar 11 | Course Wrap-Up | - |
| FW | Mar 16-18 | work on final project | push Final Project by TBD |