Class Schedule

Note: It's likely that the topics will change, but very UNlikely that the dates of homeworks or quizzes will. Homeworks are assigned on Friday, and they are due the following Friday at 9:00pm (unless otherwise noted). Quizzes go out on Tuesdays at 4:30pm eastern (via gradescope); you have until 9:50am Friday to complete each quiz and you can submit multiple times.

Lecture Attendance & Videos

Lectures and recitations are in-person and attendance is expected. We don't want or expect anyone to come to class when they're sick, though, so we'll post supplementary videos each week that you can use to catch up on any missed material. If you miss class for any reason, we recommend watching the videos for that week and stopping by Laney's office hours to get caught up.

These supplementary videos were recorded in previous semesters. They will not use the same examples or cover material in the same order as we'll do in our lectures. We hope they're helpful for days when you need to miss class, but they will definitely NOT be an identical experience!

Week	Reading	Topics/Video	HW	Materials
1 Jan 10/13	Ch 1, 2.1-2.3	Videos Gradescope & Autograder Variables & Arithmetic Topic: Welcome to DS2000! Variables Assignment Arithmetic operations	HW1 & Grading Notes (due 1/20)	From Class dogs.py (1/10) Slides (1/10) Data we care about - sec1, sec2, sec3 averages.py (1/13) Lecture Notes (1/13) Handouts Variables & Arithmetic Operators How to Approach a Programming Assignment
2 Jan 17/20	Ch 9.1-9.3	Videos Working with Files Data Viz Topic: Working with Data Intro to Files Reading text and numbers A little data viz Quiz 1	HW 2 & Grading Notes (due 1/27)	From Class boston_salaries.txt (1/17) salary.py (1/17) Lecture Notes (1/17) firefighter_salaries.txt (1/20) salary_plot.py (1/20) Lecture Notes (1/20) Data Viz Slides (1/20) Handouts File Processing Data Viz with matplotlib
3 Jan 24/27	Ch 3.1-3.7	Videos Conditionals While Loops Topic: Making Decisions Boolean expressions Conditionals Iteration (while loops) Math library, random Quiz 2	HW 3 & Grading Notes (due 2/3)	From Class dice_game.py (1/24) Lecture Notes (1/24) tottenham_results.txt (1/27) Slides (while loops) (1/27) loop_examples.py (1/27) hotspurs.py (1/27) Lecture Notes (1/27) Handouts Conditionals While Loops
4 Jan 31/Feb 3	Ch 5.1-5.6	Videos Data Sources Lists Topic: Lists and Loops Intro to lists Iteration (for loops) and range Quiz 3	Mini-Viz Requirements	From Class hotspurs_v2.py (1/31) Lecture Notes (1/31) soccer_iteration.py (2/3) Lecture Notes (2/3) Zoom Recording (passcode: ?4J5Yaz7) Handouts Python Lists
5 Feb 7/10	Ch 5.7-5.8, 4.1-4.2	Videos List Operations Topic: Lists and Loops Lists cont'd Slicing and Indexing Tuples CSV Files Quiz 4	HW 4 & Grading notes (due 2/17)	From Class laney_garmin.txt (2/7) laney_running.py (2/7) Lecture Notes (2/7) List Index Cards (2/7) runner_data.csv (2/10) long_runner.py (12/10) Lecture Notes (12/10)
6 Feb 14/17	Ch 4.3-4.11	Videos Functions Calling functions 2D Lists Topic: Functions Writing functions Calling functions Parameters and Scope Return statements Lists of lists Quiz 5	HW 5 & Grading Notes (due 2/24)	From Class function_practice.py (2/14) Lecture Notes (2/14) DD_US.csv (2/17) Lecture Notes (2/17) find_dunks.py (2/17) Handouts Functions
7 Feb 21/24	Ch 5.16-5.18	Videos 2D Lists Topic: 2D Lists etc. Tuples Optional parameters Lists of lists cont'd Quiz 6		From Class DD_US.csv (2/21) dunk_util.py (2/21) Lecture Notes (2/21) Our Dunks Map! (2/21) dunk_nn.py (2/24) Lecture Notes (2/24) Handouts Variables & Scope Dictionaries
8 Feb 28/Mar 3	Ch 6.1-6.2, 9.5	Videos Dictionaries Wordcount Topic: Dictionaries Dictionaries Keys and values Counting occurrrences	Mini-Viz due 3/3	From Class Lecture Notes (2/28) Slides (2/28) neu_geography.csv (3/3) neu_states.py (3/3) chatbot.txt (3/3) common_chatbot.py (3/3) Lecture Notes (3/3) Handouts Dictionaries
9 Mar 7/10	Spring Break: NO CLASS!!!!
10 Mar 14/17	Ch 8.1-8.9	Videos Strings Topic: String Processing Sentiment analysis Strings and text processing Data encryption Quiz 7 Friday: Class On Zoom	HW6 & Grading Notes (due 3/24)	From Class sentiment.py (3/14) Lecture Notes (3/14) Video from Lecture (3/14) decryption.py (3/17) Lecture Notes (3/17) Video from Lecture (3/17) passcode: `+&xu%Wx0` Handouts Python strings
11 Mar 21/24	Ch 10.1-10.4	Videos Classes and Objects Classes Cont'd Topic: Classes + Objects Intro to classes and objects Methods Quiz 8	HW7 & Grading Notes (due 3/31)	From Class Slides (3/21) Lecture Notes (3/21) deck.py (3/21) card.py (3/21) card_game.py (3/21) Lecture Notes (3/24) card.py (3/24) deck.py (3/24) gofish.py (3/24 - Sec 1) war.py (3/24 - Sec 2) blackjack.py (3/24 - Sec 3) Handouts Classes and Objects
12 Mar 28	Ch 13.1-13.8	Videos Recommendation Systems CSV to Dictionary Topic: Classes + Objects Cont'd Recommendation Systems Classes and objects cont'd Friday: NO CLASS!	HW 8 - Second Chance (due 4/7)	From class Lecture Notes (3/28) tvshow.py (3/28) recommender.py (3/28)
13 Apr 4/7	Ch 8.13, 7.14	Topic: Data Science Algorithms Recommendations cont'd Similarity measures Nearest-neighbor classifcation		From Class sec1_recommendations.csv (4/4) sec2_recommendations.csv (4/4) sec3_recommendations.csv (4/4) tvshow.py (sec1 - 4/4) recommender.py (sec1 - 4/4) tvshow.py (sec2 - 4/4) recommender.py (sec2 - 4/4) tvshow.py (sec3 - 4/4) recommender.py (sec3 - 4/4) Lecture Notes (4/4) emmyshow.py (starter code - 4/7) classifier.py (starter code = 4/7) shows.csv (4/7) classifier.py (final code - 4/7) emmyshow.py (final code - 4/7) Lecture Notes (4/7)
14 Apr 11/14		Topic: File Structures Linear Regression Data processing with Pandas Wrap-Up! Last Lecture: 4/14		From Class Wrap-up Questions (for 4/14) cageweather.csv (4/11) jp_properties.csv (4/11) regression.py (4/11) Lecture Notes (4/11) Wrap-Up Slides (4/14) scrape.py
15 Apr 18		No Class: 4/18