Schedule
The schedule below is a tentative outline of our plans for the semester.
Before each class period, please watch the indicated videos and check on your understanding by actively reviewing the associated Learning Goals.
The readings listed below are optional but serve as a nice complement to the videos and class activities. Readings refer to chapters/sections in the Introduction to Statistical Learning (ISLR) textbook (available online here).
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| Date | Topic | Videos/Readings | Slides/Notes |
| 9/2 | 1 Introductions | ISLR: Chap 1 & Section 2.1 (Skip 2.1.2, 2.1.3 for now.) |
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| 9/7 | 2 Evaluating Regression Models |
Evaluating Regression Models R: Introduction to TidyModels ISLR: Section 2.2 |
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| 9/9 | 3 Overfitting |
Overfitting R: Preprocessing and Recipes ISLR: 5.1 |
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| Start Homework 1 due Thurs, 9/16 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 3 | |||||
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| 9/14 | 4 Cross Validation Writing Sentences |
Cross-validation R: Training, Testing and Cross-Validation ISLR: 5.1 |
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| 9/16 | 5 Subset Selection |
Variable Subset Selection R: Subset Selection ISLR: 6.1 |
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| Finish Homework 1 due Thurs, 9/16 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 4 | |||||
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| 9/21 | 6 LASSO (Shrinkage/Regularization) |
LASSO (Shrinkage/Regularization) R: Lasso and Regularization ISLR: 6.2 |
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| 9/23 | 7 KNN Regression and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff |
KNN Regression and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff R: KNN Regression ISLR: 2.2.2 for the bias-variance tradeoff; 3.5 for KNN regression |
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| Start Homework 2 due Thurs, 9/30 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 5 | |||||
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| Date | Topic | Videos/Readings | Slides/Notes | ||
| 9/28 | 8 Catch up Day | Check out Content Conversation Prompts for next week's conversations |
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| 9/30 | 9 Modeling Nonlinearity: Polynomial Regression and Splines |
Modeling Nonlinearity: Polynomial Regression and Splines R: Nonlinearity: Polynomial Regression and Splines ISLR: 7.1-7.4 |
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| Finish Homework 2 due Thurs, 9/30 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 6 | |||||
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| Date | Topic | Videos/Readings | Slides/Notes | ||
| 10/5 | Content Conversation 1 (no class - sign up for a meeting time) | ||||
| 10/7 | 10 Local Regression and Generalized Additive Models |
Local Regression and Generalized Additive Models R: Local Regression and GAM ISLR: 7.6-7.7 |
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| Start Homework 3 due Wednesday, 10/20 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 10/12 | Project Work Day |
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| 10/14 | 11 Logistic Regression & Evaluating Classification Models |
Logistic Regression Evaluating Classification Models R: Logistic Regression R: Evaluating Classification ISLR: 4.1 - 4.3 |
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| Finish Homework 3 due Wednesday, 10/20 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 8 | |||||
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| 10/19 | 12 Lasso & Logistic | ISLR: 4.1 - 4.3 |
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| 10/21 | FALL BREAK - NO CLASS | ||||
| Finish Homework 3 due Wednesday, 10/20 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 9 | |||||
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| 10/26 | 13 Decision Trees |
Decision Trees R: Decision Trees ISLR: 8.1 |
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| 10/28 | 14 Bagging and Random Forests |
Bagging and Random Forests R: Bagging and Random Forests ISLR: 8.2 |
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| Start Homework 4 due Thursday, 11/4 at midnight CST | |||||
| Week 10 | |||||
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| 11/2 | Classification Catch up (see Slides) |
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| 11/4 | 15: K-Means Clustering |
K-Means Clustering ISLR: 10.3.1 |
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| Finish Homework 4 due Thursday, 11/4 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 11/9 | Content Conversation 2 (no class - sign up for a meeting time) | ||||
| 11/11 | 16: Hierarchical Clustering |
Hierarchical Clustering ISLR: 10.3.2 |
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| Start Homework 5 due Tuesday, 11/23 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 11/16 | 17 Clustering Catch up |
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| 11/18 | 18 Principal Components Analysis |
Principal Components Analysis ISLR: 10.2 |
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| Finish Homework 5 due Tuesday, 11/23 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 11/23 | Putting it all together |
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| 11/25 | Thanksgiving Break - No Class | ||||
| Finish Homework 5 due Tuesday, 11/23 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 11/30 | Project Work |
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| 12/2 | Project Work |
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| Work on Final Project code appendix draft due Thursday, 12/9 at midnight CST | |||||
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| 12/7 | Content Conversation 3 - No Class (sign up at this link) |
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| 12/9 | Project Work |
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Finish Final Project code appendix draft due Thursday, 12/9 at midnight CST Finish Final Project final code appendix & recorded presentation due Thursday, 12/16 at midnight CST |
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