Lecture Schedule

This is a tentative schedule. It is subject to change.

Date Lecture Notes Homework
Week 1 — — —
Sep 2 01 – Course Intro and Git Class Intro, Git
Sep 4 02 – Spark Project Pitch Day Pitch Deck
Week 2 — — —
Sep 9 03 – Class Survey Results, Intro to Pandas Survey Results (1), Pandas
(1) BU email address required
Sep 11 04 – DS Project Lifecycle, Intro to SciKit-Learn DS PLC, SciKit-Learn
Week 3 — — —
Sep 16 05 – Probability Refresher Probability
Sep 18 06 – Linear Algebra Refresher Linear Algebra
Week 4 — — —
Sep 23 07 – Distance, Similarity Functions and Time Series Distances, Time Series
Sep 25 08 – Clustering I: k-means k-means
Week 5 — — —
Sep 30 09 – Clusterin II: In Practice Clustering in Practice
Oct 2 10 – Clustering III: Hierarchical Hierarchical Clustering
Week 6 — — —
Oct 7 11 – Clustering IV: GMM and Expectation Maximization GMM and EM
Oct 9 12 – Learning From Data Learning From Data
Week 7 — — —
Oct 14 🍂 No Class – Monday Schedule 🍂
Oct 16 13 – Classification I: Decision Trees and Random Forests Decision Trees
Week 8 — — —
Oct 21 14 – Classification II: k-Nearest Neighbors k-NN
Oct 23 15 – Linear Regression Linear Regression
Week 9 — — —
Oct 28 16 – Logistic Regression and Regularization Logistic Regression Regularization
Oct 30 17 – SVD Low Rank Approximations SVD
Week 10 — — —
Nov 4 18 – Dimensionality Reduction: PCA and t-SNE PCA and t-SNE
Nov 6 19 – Neural Networks Neural Networks
Week 11 — — —
Nov 11 20 – Intro to NLP NLP
Nov 13 21 – Recommender Systems - I Recommender Systems - I
Week 12 — — —
Nov 18 22 – Recommender Systems - II and Graphs I Recommender Systems II
Nov 20 23 – Graphs I Graphs I
Week 13 — — —
Nov 25 24: Graphs II Graphs II
Nov 27 🦃 No Class – Thanksgiving Recess 🌽
Week 14 — — —
Dec 2 25: Time Series Time Series
Dec 4 📽️ Project Presentation I 📽️
Week 15 — — —
Dec 9 📽️ Project Presentations II 📽️
Dec 10 🎉 Last Day of Classes 🎉 🔬 Projects Due 🔬
Dec 11 ✨ Spark Demo Day 4pm – 7pm ⚡️

Project Presentations

Each presentation will be strictly limited to 6 minutes, with up to 1 minute for questions.

December 4 Presentations

  • WGBH Investigations, Medical Debt
    • 11:00 – 11:06: Team A
  • CHAPA
    • 11:07 – 11:13: Team B
  • MuckRock
    • 11:14 – 11:20: Team B
  • Voter Language Predictor Analysis
    • 11:21 – 11:27: Team B
  • ABCD
    • 11:28 – 11:34: Team A
  • Senator Markey Grants
    • 11:35 – 11:41: Team B
  • Act on Mass
    • 11:42 – 11:48: Team A
  • CAIR Media
    • 11:49 – 11:55: Team B
  • CISS Colombia
    • 11:56 – 12:02: Team A
  • CZ 911
    • 12:03 – 12:09: Team B

December 9 Presentations

  • WGBH Investigations, Medical Debt
    • 11:00 – 11:06: Team B
  • CHAPA
    • 11:07 – 11:13: Team A
  • MuckRock
    • 11:14 – 11:20: Team A
  • Voter Language Predictor Analysis
    • 11:21 – 11:27: Team A
  • ABCD
    • 11:28 – 11:34: Team B
  • Senator Markey Grants
    • 11:35 – 11:41: Team A
  • Act on Mass
    • 11:42 – 11:48: Team B
  • CAIR Media
    • 11:49 – 11:55: Team A
  • CISS Colombia
    • 11:56 – 12:02: Team B
  • CZ 911
    • 12:03 – 12:09: Team A
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