Spring 2024 student materials for MATH 108 Foundations of Data Science at CCSF
This is the initial planned schedule for the semester, view the actual course schedule in Canvas for more details.
| Module | Module Dates | Lectures | Textbook Section(s) | Discussion | Lab Activity | Homework | Project | Exam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | January 29 - February 4 | 01 Introduction, 02 Cause and Effect, 03 Expressions | 1.0 - 3.3 | Discussion Worksheet 01: Study Design and Python | Lab 01: Jupyter and Python | Homework 01: Causality and Expressions | ||
| 02 | February 5 - February 11 | 04 Data Types, 05 Sequences, 06 Tables | 4.0 - 5.3, 3.4 | Discussion Worksheet 02: Data Types | Lab 02: Data Types | Homework 02: Arrays and Tables | ||
| 03 | February 12 - February 18 (Includes Holidays) | 07 Building Tables, 08 Charts, 09 Histograms | 6.0 - 7.3 | Discussion Worksheet 03: Visualizing Tabular Data | Lab 03: Visualizations | Homework 03: Visualizations | ||
| 04 | February 19 - February 25 (Includes Holiday) | 10 Functions, 11 Groups, 12 Pivots and Joins | 8.0 - 8.5 | Discussion Worksheet 04: Functions and Aggregation | Lab 04: Functions and Aggregation | Homework 04: Data Analysis | ||
| 05 | February 26 - March 3 | 13 Conditionals and Iteration, 14 Chance | 9.0 - 9.5 | Discussion Worksheet 05: Conditionals, Iteration, and Chance | Lab 05: Conditionals, Iteration, and Chance | Homework 05: Simulation and Chance | Project1: World Population and Poverty | |
| 06 | March 4 - March 10 (Includes FLEX) | 15 Sampling, 16 Distributions | 10.0 - 10.4 | Discussion Worksheet 06: Sampling and Distributions | Project 1: Checkpoint | Homework 06: Sampling | ||
| 07 | March 11 - March 17 | 17 Models, 18 Comparing Distributions, 19 Decisions and Uncertainty | 11.0 - 11.4 | Discussion Worksheet 07: Testing Hypotheses | Lab 06: Testing Hypotheses | Homework 07: Testing Hypotheses | ||
| 08 | March 18 - March 24 | 20 A/B Testing, 21 Causality, 22 Hypothesis Testing Examples | 12.0 - 12.3 | Discussion Worksheet 08: A/B Testing | Lab 07: A/B Testing | Homework 08: A/B Testing | ||
| 09 | March 25 - March 31 | 23 Midterm Review | Project 2: Climate | Midterm | ||||
| 10 | April 1 - April 14 (Includes Spring Break) | 24 Confidence Intervals, 25 Interpreting Confidence, 26 Center and Spread | 13.0 - 13.4 | Discussion Worksheet 09: Interpreting Confidence | Lab 08: Confidence Intervals | Homework 09: Estimation | ||
| 11 | April 15 - April 21 | 27 The Normal Distribution, 28 Sample Means, 29 Designing Experiments | 14.0 - 14.6 | Discussion Worksheet 10: The Central Limit Theorem | Project 2: Checkpoint | Homework 10: Designing Experiments | ||
| 12 | April 22 - April 28 | 30 Correlation, 31 Linear Regression, 32 Least Squares | 15.0 - 15.4 | Discussion Worksheet 11: Correlation and Regression | Lab 09: Linear Regression | Homework 11: Correlation and Regression | Project 3: Movie Classification | |
| 13 | April 29 - May 5 | 33 Residuals, 34 Regression Inference | 15.5 - 16.3 | Discussion Worksheet 12: Residuals | Lab 10: Residuals | Homework 12: Error Analysis | ||
| 14 | May 6 - May 12 | 35 Classification, 36 Classifiers, 37 Updating Predictions | 17.0 - 18.2 | Discussion Worksheet 13: Classification Accuracy | Lab 11: k-NN | Homework 13: Classification | ||
| 15 | May 13 - May 19 | 38 Conclusion, 39 Course Review | Project 3: Checkpoint | |||||
| 16 | May 20 - May 22 | Final |