DS 233: Intro to Data Science II

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DS 233: Intro to Data Science II -- Schedule (spring2026)

Tentative - subject to change as course progresses

Date Description Weeks
2/5/2026IntroductionWeek 1
2/10/2026, 2/12/2026Basic Python programming; Getting dataWeek 2
2/17/2026, 2/19/2026Working with data, cleaning and manipulating data; Machine LearningWeek 3
2/24/2026, 2/27/2026k-Nearest Neighbor; Naive BayesWeek 4
3/3/2026, 3/5/2026Simple Linear Regression; Multiple regressionWeek 5
3/10/2026, 3/12/2026Logistic Regression; Practical data analysis catch-upWeek 6
3/17/2026, 3/19/2026Catch-up and review.
Mid-term exam
Week 7
3/24/2026, 3/26/2026 (Spring break, no class)Spring breakWeek 8
3/31/2026, 4/2/2026(Extended spring break on Tuesday)Review mid term, Cloud computing(Google Cloud), Data Ethics
Invited talk and discussion about Ethics in data science
Week 9
4/7/2026, 4/9/2026Decision Tree, Neural NetworksWeek 10
4/14/2026, 4/16/2026Catch-up for homework of decision, coronavirus prediction, neural network and final project. Clustering, Natural Language Processing, Network analysis and recommender systemWeek 11
4/21/2026, 4/23/2026Databases and SQLWeek 12
4/28/2026, 4/30/2026Catch-upWeek 13
5/5/2026, 5/7/2026Topics of Data science on social networks, finance data, text mining, bio-tech analysis, web data.Week 14
5/12/2026, 5/14/2026Data science in Business, Biology, Geoscience, etc.
Final project presentation
Final Exams Review
Week 15
Final exam weekWednesday, May, 20th 10:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.Week 16