This is the course website for MATH 485 - Advanced Data Science course taught by Dr. Robin Donatello in Spring 2022 at California State University, Chico. This landing page is used for posting of regular announcements and information for students of the class.
This course aims to help students navigate the evolving and murky waters of the Data Science landscape. We do so by not only providing training in advanced programming and technical skills, but also by providing opportunities for collaboration with other disciplines and reflection on how Data Science impacts human society.
Last Updated: Wed May 04 8:13:37 PM
| Week | Date | Topic | Learning Objectives | Prepare |
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| Week 1 | ||||
| Notes | 01/25 | Getting started | Get connected to the class learning tools | |
| 01/27 | Creating a professional website | Create an professional online presence | ||
| Week 2 | ||||
| Notes | 02/01 | Current state of Data Science | Connect with the current state of DS |
Read Doing Data Science (DDS) Ch 1,16 Have last weeks tasks completed except Hugo/Blogdown. Get a start on Distill. |
| Week 3 | ||||
| Notes | 02/08 | Statistical Inference, Exploratory Data Analysis, and the Data Science Process | Create a data strategy to address a business question. | Read Doing Data Science Ch 2 |
| 02/10 | Project Introductions | |||
| Week 4 | ||||
| Notes | 02/15 | Thinking like a Data Scientist | Collaborating with others on writing a report Project planning Professionalizing your data products | |
| 02/17 | Setting the stage for the reading | Being open to new ways of thinking and viewing the world | Read Race after Technology (RAT) Preface & answer questions in learning journal | |
| Week 5 | ||||
| Notes | 02/22 | SQL | Wrangle and aggregate data from multiple tables using a universal language | |
| Project Orientation | Do a needs assessment and create a scope of work for your project. |
Pull your github repo according to directions in Discord. Review the README. Complete your Data Security Training |
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| 02/24 | The New Jim Code | Understand what the New Jim Code is and how it impacts our society | Read Race after Technology Introduction answer questions in HackMD | |
| Week 6 | ||||
| Notes | 03/01 | What is Statistical Learning? |
Read/watch [ISLR Ch 1] before class on Tuesday. Pull your ISLR github classroom repo. Prepare Chapter 2 answers per Week 6 notes. Finish all questions before Thursday. |
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| Project | Update your timeline with measurable deliverables by next Thursday project report out. | |||
| Learning Reflection | Reflect on new learnings, and self-assess your classwork efforts. | |||
| Week 7 | ||||
| Notes | 03/08 | Linear Regression | Write a tutorial for your website on how to use Tidymodels to build and assess a linear regression model. Data & Topic is your choice. | Skim ISLR Ch 3. Start on the Tidymodels lab. |
| Engineered Inequity | Read RAT Part 1 (Engineered Inequity) and answer discussion questions in HackMD | |||
| Project | 10 minute class and client update | |||
| Week 8 | ||||
| Notes | 03/22 | Classification | Pull an update to your ISLR repo. Read/watch ISLR Chapter 4 content & prepare answers to questions to discuss in class. We’ll spend half the class each day on this topic. | |
| Race as a predictor | Critically examine policies used to predict student success | Read the article, Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success. Reflect on this reading in your learning journal. Some reflection prompts are in Week 8 notes. Be prepared for a short class discussion on Thursday | ||
| Week 9 | ||||
| Notes | 03/28 | Resampling methods | Read/watch ISLR Chapter 5 content & prepare answers to questions to discuss in class. We’ll spend half the class each day on this topic. | |
| 03/31 | Cesar Chavez day | No class on Thursday | ||
| 04/01 | DataFest (Optional) | 48hour data analysis competition. Make new friends, compete for prizes and bragging rights. Eat lots of free food. | Register at https://chicodatafest.netlify.app/ | |
| Week 10 | ||||
| Notes | 04/05 | Default Discrimination | Read RAT Part 2 and answer discussion questions in HackMD. We’ll discuss in class on 4/05 | |
| Week 11 | ||||
| Notes | 04/12 | Tree based methods | ISLR Ch 8 | |
| 04/14 | Coded exposure | Read RAT Part 3 and answer discussion questions in HackMD | ||
| Week 12 | ||||
| 12 | 04/19 | Project | Client report out | |
| Updates from the world of DS. | Check back in with the people that you started following at the | |||
| Week 13 | ||||
| 13 | 04/26 | Preparing for Poster session | Solid draft poster due by EOD Tue for feedback and revision. Practice presentation on Thursday. Ready for printing by Friday. | |
| Week 14 | ||||
| Notes | 05/03 | Technological benevolence | Read RAT Part 4 and answer discussion questions in HackMD | |
| Week 15 | ||||
| Notes | 05/10 | What’s next? | ||
| Technical Communication | Prepare a technical contributed blog post, tutorial, or story for the Data Science Initiatve website. | |||
| Retooling Solidarity, Reimagining Justice | Read RAT Part 5 and answer discussion questions in HackMD | |||
| Finals | ||||
| Notes | 05/17 | Project Presentations | Communicate your project as parts/whole of the data science lifecycle to a scientific, but non technical audience. | Formal 30 minute stakeholder presentations. 12pm - 2pm. (15 minute presentation, 10 minute discussion / Q&A) |
| Project wrap up | Clean up & prepare your repository for ‘hand off’ | |||
| Topic | Assignment | course_obj | Location | Due |
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| Week 1 | ||||
| Getting Started |
Join the Discord Server. After you agree to the code of conduct you will be able to select DATA-485 as your role which will grant you access to our class channels. Post an introduction: Name, What is one thing you want us to know about you? Introduce your pets and/or favorite items.
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Discord Join Link | 01/26 | |
| Send Dr. D github username | Post in Discord #class-chat | 01/26 | ||
| Accept invite to github classroom | Email? | 01/26 | ||
| Join HackMD - sign up via github and put your name here as a test | HackMD Test file | 01/26 | ||
| Update R Studio & all relevant packages. Or consider doing a fresh install of R. It’s nice to clean house on occasion, just not if you’re in the middle of a different project. | Web | 01/26 | ||
| Ensure that your Rstudio can push and pull to github | Happy Git with R | 01/26 | ||
| Accept assignment for grades, clone that repo to your local computer and check out the data and report script | Github Classroom | 01/28 | ||
| Setup a Learning Journal and send Dr. D the URL | Send via Discord | 01/26 | ||
| Creating a professional website | R Markdown website demo. | 2 | Github Classroom | 02/02 |
| Week 2 | ||||
| Creating a professional website | Distill website demo | 2 | Github Classroom | 02/07 |
| Blogdown website demo | 2 | Week 2 notes | 02/07 | |
| Current state of Data Science | What is DS collaborative notes | 6 | HackMD What is DS | 02/03 |
| Learning Journal entry: What is your DS Niche? - What is your skillset? Your domain? - Where do you want to grow? | 7 | Your Learning Journal & Google sheets (Link in HackMD) | 02/07 | |
| Find someone on Twitter that is in the DS realm that seems interesting to you. Post their twitter handle in Discord and a tweet of theirs that you find particularly interesting (and tell us why it’s interesting to you) | 7 | Discord | 02/04 | |
| Read and comment on at least one of your classmates posts | 7 | Discord | 02/07 | |
| Personal website with 1 blog post about something you found interesting lately by writing up a summary/demo/whatever. Share with URL to Discord | 2 | Your website / Discord | 02/11 | |
| Respond/reply to blog post - in Discord | 6 | Discord | 02/14 | |
| Week 3 | ||||
| Forming a mathematical model to a business question. | Real estate case study: Stakeholder report (draft) | 5 | Github Classroom | 02/15 |
| Project | Rank your interest in the project proposals from 1 (most interested) to 3 (least interested) with justification in your learning journal. | Learning Journal | 02/13 | |
| Week 4 | ||||
| Race after Technology | Preface: Reflection questions in Learning Journal | Learning Journal, Reading iscussion guide | 02/16 | |
| Forming a mathematical model to a business question. | Real estate case study: Final Stakeholder report. Evaluation rubric in week 4 notes. | 5 | Send final report to Dr. D via Discord | 02/21 |
| Project | Complete data security training. | Week 5 notes | 02/28 | |
| Week 5 | ||||
| SQL | Work through the SQLBolt interactive tutorial up until lesson 12. Screenshot your answer for the last exercise and send to me via Discord. | 5 | SQL Bolt | 03/01 |
| Race after Technology | Read Introduction and answer assigned question in HackMD. Will discuss as Jigsaw discussion in class. | HackMD Reading Intro Jigsaw Notes | 02/23 | |
| Project | Obtain shared private repo. Follow instructions in README | Github classroom link in Discord. Pay attention to naming request. | 02/21 | |
| Submit a PR to ADS website with student team roster on your assigned project page | Github repo for this class webpage | 02/23 | ||
| Week 6 | ||||
| What is Statistical Learning? | ISLR Ch2 Notes & Exercises | ISLR Repo - ch2-statistical-learning | 03/07 | |
| Tidymodels | Learning Tidymodels | ISLR Repo - New file | 03/07 | |
| Project | Edit your project page to adjust or add to the timeline and milestones sections. Update the NSC Poster session date to May 2nd. | ADS Website | 03/02 | |
| Learning Reflection | Learning journal reflection - 1) What new information have you learned so far in this class? 2) Are you putting your best effort into your work? | Learning Journal | 03/07 | |
| Week 7 | ||||
| Race after Technology | Read Part 1: Engineered Inequity & answer discussion questions | HackMD Notes | 03/08 | |
| Project | Classwide & Client project share out | 03/10 | ||
| Linear Regression | Leverage your knowledge of linear models and write a tutorial on how to fit a regression model in the Tidy models framework. The data and model you fit is your choice. | Your blog website | 03/21 | |
| Peer review | Review another classmates tutorial and provide comments & feedback in Discord. Is there something that isn’t clear? Did you spot a mistake they can fix? What did you find helpful & useful about their tutorial (be specific) | Discord | 03/24 | |
| Tidymodels | Walk through the Tidymodels tutorial: “Preprocessing your data with recipies”. | ISLR Repo - Create a new file for this | 03/21 | |
| Week 8 | ||||
| Classification | ISLR Ch 4 - Notes | ISLR Repo | 03/28 | |
| Classification | ISLR Ch 4 - Exercises | ISLR Repo | 03/28 | |
| Race as a predictor | Read the article, Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success. Reflect on this reading in your learning journal. Question prompts are in week 8 notes. Be prepared for a short class discussion | Learning Journal | 03/24 | |
| Week 9 | ||||
| Resampling methods | ISLR Ch 5 - Notes | ISLR Repo | 04/04 | |
| Resampling methods | ISLR Ch 5 - Exercises | ISLR Repo | 04/04 | |
| Learning Reflection | Returning to the learning bridge | Learning Journal | 03/29 | |
| Project | Project updates | ADS Website repo | 03/30 | |
| Week 10 | ||||
| Race after Technology | Read Part 2: Default Discrimination & answer discussion questions | HackMD | 04/05 | |
| Project | Formal client share out | 04/05 | ||
| Project | Weekly project updates | ADS Website repo | 04/06 | |
| Week 11 | ||||
| Race after Technology | Read Part 3: Coded Exposure & answer discussion questions | HackMD | 04/14 | |
| Project | Project updates | ADS Website repo | 04/13 | |
| Tree based methods | ISLR Ch 8 - Collaborative notes | ISLR Repo | 04/25 | |
| Tree based methods | ISLR Ch 8 - Practice Exercises | ISLR Repo | 04/25 | |
| Project | Write a poster abstract (1600 character limit) and send to Robin to review. | Google Docs or MS Word | 04/14 | |
| Project | Submit your reviewed & revised abstract to the NSC Poster session. | Google submission form | 04/15 | |
| Week 12 | ||||
| Project | 9:30-10am (separate) Project share out with science team. Share with them your abstract and goals for poster. | Zoom / in person | 04/19 | |
| Project | Weekly project updates | ADS Website repo | 04/20 | |
| DS world update | Update the class with something new in the DS world you’ve found out or learned about this week. Check back in with the people/projects that you talked about at the beginning of the week. What are they up to this week? | Post in Discord #class-chat | 04/22 | |
| Week 13 | ||||
| Project | Project Poster - Very solid Draft for peer review | Project repo | 04/26 | |
| Project | Project Poster - Practice talk | In class | 04/28 | |
| Project | Project poster - Printable version | Project repo | 04/29 | |
| Week 14 | ||||
| Project | NSC Poster Session | Colusa 100A/B | 05/02 | |
| Race after Technology | Read Part 4:Technological Benevolence & answer discussion questions | HackMD | 05/03 | |
| Technical communication | Contributed blog post for the DSI website - draft | 05/13 | ||
| Week 15 | ||||
| Technical communication | Contributed blog post for the DSI website - final | 05/20 | ||
| Learning Reflection | Post semester reflection | Learning Journal | 05/12 | |
| Race after Technology | Read Part 5: Retooling Solidarity & answer discussion questions | HackMD | 05/10 | |
| Finals | ||||
| Project | Final project presentation for stakeholders | Google docs | 05/17 | |
| Project | Preparing your project repository | Github | 05/20 | |
| Project Reflection | Write a reflective summary of your project experience. Prompt questions on week 16 of the course website. | Learning Journal | 05/20 | |