DATA 133: Introduction to Data Science I

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DATA 133: Introduction to Data Science I -- Schedule (fall2026)

Tentative - subject to change as course progresses

Date Description Weeks
9/10/2026Introduction to Data Science
Introduction to R environment and basics
Week 1
9/15/2026, 9/17/2026Quiz 1. Get data IN and OUT of R
Subsetting R objects
Week 2
9/22/2026, 9/14/2026Quiz 2. Control structure of RWeek 3
9/29/2026, 10/1/2026Quiz 3. Functions of R.Week 4
10/6/2026, 10/8/2026Quiz 4. Simulating and Plot of RWeek 5
10/13/2026, 10/15/2026Catch-up and Review
Mid-term exam
Week 6
10/20/2026, 10/22/2026Guest lecture for Ethics. Introduction to Python, basic environment, Jupyter notebook
Number and Strings. Invited lecture for final project - Business Data analysis
Week 7
10/27/2026, 10/29/2026Quiz 5. Introduction to Python - List and function
Introduction to Python - Control flow
Week 8
11/3/2026, 11/5/2026Quiz 6. Introduction to Python - I/O
Visualizing data using Python
Week 9
11/10/2026, 11/12/2026Quiz 7. Linear Algebra
Statistics
Week 10
11/17/2026, 11/19/2026Quiz 8. ProbabilityWeek 11
11/24/2026, 11/26/2026 Thanksgiving breakInvited lecture from Prof. Edgar Twitter bot. Catch-up and ReviewWeek 12
12/1/2026, 12/3/2026Getting Data: HTML Crawling and API’s I; Getting Data: HTML Crawling and API’s II
Catch-up and Review
Week 13
12/8/2026, 12/10/2026Selected topic and reviewsWeek 14
Final exam weekWednesday, December, 10th 10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.Week 15