Schedule overview
The schedule information on this page is subject to changes. All times are Pacific.
- Lab
Section 1: Mondays, 9 am–noon, Chen 130
Section 2: Mondays, 1–4 pm, Chen 130
Section 3: Mondays, 7–10 pm, Chen 130
- Lecture
Section 1: Wednesdays, 9–9:50 am, Chen 100
Section 2: Wednesdays, 10–10:50 am, Chen 100
Instructor office hours: Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm, Broad 200
TA recitation: Wednesdays, 7–8:30 pm, Chen 130
TA homework help: Wednesdays, 8:30–10 pm, Chen 130
Homework due dates
Homework 0: due as soon as you can, not later than September 27
Homework 1: due 5 pm, October 7
Homework 2: due 5 pm, October 14
Homework 3: due 5 pm, October 21
Homework 4: due 5 pm, October 28
Homework 5: due 5 pm, November 4
Homework 6: due 5 pm, November 11
Homework 7: due 5 pm, November 18
Homework 8: due 11:59 pm, December 2
Homework 9: due 5 pm, December 8
Homework 10: due 5 pm, December 9
Lesson exercise due dates
Lesson exercise 1: due noon, October 2
Lesson exercise 2: due noon, October 9
Lesson exercise 3: due noon, October 16
Lesson exercise 4: due noon, October 23
Lesson exercise 5: due noon, October 30
Lesson exercise 6: due noon, November 6
Lesson exercise 7: due noon, November 13
Lesson exercise 8: due noon, November 20
Lesson exercise 9: due noon, November 27
Weekly schedule
The notes for each Monday lesson must be read ahead of time and associated lesson exercises submitted by noon on the Sunday before the lesson. For example, the exercises to be completed after lesson 6 must be submitted by noon on Sunday, October 2.
If one were reading through the lessons, the numbering of the lessons represents the most logical order. However, due to the constrains of class meeting times, some of the lessons are presented out of order. This is not a problem, though, as no lesson that strictly depends on another are presented out of order and the order shown in the schedule below is also a reasonable ordering of the lessons.
- Week 0
Lesson 00: Preparing for the course
- Week 1
W 09/28: Course welcome and team set-up
W 09/28: Lesson 01: Data analysis pipelines (lecture)
W 09/28: Lesson 02: Version control with Git
Th 09/29: Recitation 01: The command line and Git
- Week 2
M 10/03: Lesson 03: Introduction to Python
M 10/03: Lesson 04: Style
M 10/03: Lesson 05: Test-driven development
M 10/03: Lesson 06: Exploratory data analysis, part 1
W 10/05: Lesson 09: Good data storage and sharing practices (guest lecture by Kristin Briney)
Th 10/06: Recitation 02: Introduction to image processing
- Week 3
M 10/10: Lesson 07: Exploratory data analysis, part 2
M 10/10: Lesson 08: File formats
M 10/10: Lesson 10: Data wrangling
W 10/12: Lesson 11: Introduction to probability (lecture)
Th 10/13: Recitation 03: Manipulating data frames
- Week 4
M 10/17: Lesson 12: Random number generation
M 10/17: Lesson 13: Probability distributions
W 10/19: Lesson 14: Plug-in estimates and confidence intervals (lecture)
Th 10/20: Recitation 04: Probability review
- Week 5
M 10/24: Lesson 15: Nonparametric inference with hacker stats
W 10/26: Lesson 16: Null hypothesis significance testing (lecture)
Th 10/27: Recitation 05: Overplotting
- Week 6
M 10/31: Lesson 17: NHST with hacker stats
W 11/02: Lesson 18: Parametric inference (lecture)
W 11/02: Recitation 06: Dashboarding
- Week 7
M 11/07: Lesson 19: Numerical maximum likelihood estimation
W 11/09: Lesson 20: Variate-covariate models
W 11/09: Recitation 07: Topics in bootstrapping
- Week 8
M 11/14: Lesson 21: Confidence intervals of MLEs
W 11/16: Lesson 22: Reproducible workflows (guest lecture by Griffin Chure, 9 AM PST)
W 11/16: Lesson 23: The paper of the future (guest lecture by Griffin Chure, 10 AM PST)
W 11/16: Recitation 08: MLE review
- Week 10
M 11/28: Lesson 25: Mixture models
M 11/28: Lesson 27: Implementation of model assessment
W 11/30: Lesson 28: Statistical watchouts (lecture)
W 11/30: Recitation 09: High-performance computing