CSCI 1360

Foundations for Informatics and Analytics

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Course Schedule

Tuesday and Thursday lectures are located in Science Learning Center (SLC) 145 and are at 11:00am - 12:15pm.

Wednesday flipped lectures are located in Pharmacy South 301 and are from 11:15am - 12:05pm.

Final Exam: Tuesday, December 13: 12:00 - 3:00pm.

Week Day Lecture Assignment
1 of 16 Thurs, 8/11 Lecture 1 (L1): What is data science?  
2 of 16 Tues, 8/16 L2: Introduction to Python  
Wed, 8/17 Flip 1 (F1): Kyle Earley, Brandan Cowan  
Thurs, 8/18 L3: Python Variables and Syntax Assignment 0 (A0) out
3 of 16 Tues, 8/23 L4: Basic Data Structures  
Wed, 8/24 F2: Jonathan Griffey  
Thurs, 8/25 L5: Looping A0 due ; A1 out
4 of 16 Tues, 8/30 L6: Advanced Data Structures  
Wed, 8/31 F3: Jennifer Cosler  
Thurs, 9/1 QA1: Review Session A1 due; A2 out
5 of 16 Tues, 9/6 L7: Conditionals and Exceptions  
Wed, 9/7 F4: Sean Diller and Jason Jones  
Thurs, 9/8 L8: Functions I A2 due; A3 out
6 of 16 Tues, 9/13 L9: Functions II  
Wed, 9/14 F5: John Fisher  
Thurs, 9/15 L10: Variable Scope A3 due; A4 out
7 of 16 Tues, 9/20 L11: Classes and Objects  
Wed, 9/21 F6: Miller Mrosek  
Thurs, 9/22 QA2: Review Session A4 due; A5 out
8 of 16 Tues, 9/27 L12: Vectorized Programming  
Wed, 9/28 F7: Zach Roberts  
Thurs, 9/29 L13: Slicing, Indexing, and Broadcasting A5 due; A6 out
9 of 16 Tues, 10/4 L14: Interacting with the Filesystem  
Wed, 10/5 F8: Justin Hooker  
Thurs, 10/6 L15: File Formats and Parsing Tools A6 due
10 of 16 Tues, 10/11 GII Symposium  
Wed, 10/12 QA3: Review Session  
Thurs, 10/13
MIDTERM EXAM
11 of 16 Tues, 10/18 L16: Linear Algebra  
Wed, 10/19 F9: Swathi Chirackel and Cindy Lieu  
Thurs, 10/20 L17: Statistics A7 out
12 of 16 Tues, 10/25 L18: Probability  
Wed, 10/19 F10: Christian Pedraza and Vy Huynh  
Thurs, 10/20 L19: Natural Language Processing Basics A7 due; A8 out
13 of 16 Tues, 11/1 L20: Advanced Natural Language Processing  
Wed, 11/2 F11 (group discussion)  
Thurs, 11/3 QA4: Review Session A8 due; A9 out
14 of 16 Tues, 11/8 L21: Introduction to Computer Vision  
Wed, 11/9 F12: Jungwoo Park  
Thurs, 11/10 L22: Data Visualization A9 due; A10 out
15 of 16 Tues, 11/15 L23: Data Exploration  
Wed, 11/16 F13  
Thurs, 11/17 L24: Introduction to Machine Learning A10 due; A11 out
16 of 16 Tues, 11/29 L25: Open Data Science A11 due
Wed, 11/30 F14  
Thurs, 12/1 QA5: Review Session