Course Schedule#

This is the tentative plan for COSC 301 this term. The exact details are subject to change, so this is roughly the plan we will try to follow.

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Week

Topics

Lab

Logs

Project Milestones

Tests (Thursdays, in person)

Concepts Tested

1

Sept 6-11

Introduction to Data Analytics
Course Setup

Lab 1

LL1

-

-

-

2

Sept 12-18

Command-line
and Jupyter Notebook

Lab 2

LL2

-

Test 0

Course policies

3

Sept 19-25

Introduction to Version Control with Git

Lab 3

LL3

-

-

-

4

Sept 26 - Oct 2

Introduction to Python

Lab 4

LL4

PM 1

Test 1

Command Line and Git

5

Oct 3 - 9

Working with Data in Python

Lab 5

LL5

-

(Bonus Test 1)

-

6

Oct 10 - 16

Rest and Catchup
(no new material)

-

-

PM 2

-

-

7

Oct 17 - 23

Programming in Python

Lab 6

LL6

-

-

-

8

Oct 24 - 30

Data Visualization

Lab 7

LL7

Test 2

Python Programming

9

Oct 31 - Nov 6

Exploratory Data Analysis

Lab 8

LL8

PM 3

(Bonus Test 2)

-

10

Nov 7 - 13

Reading week
(no new material)

-

-

-

-

-

11

Nov 14 - 20

Tableau

Lab 9

LL9

PM 4

Test 3

Python and Pandas

12

Nov 21 - 27

Microsoft Excel

Lab 10

LL10

-

(Bonus Test 3)

-

13

Nov 28 - Dec 4

Project Wrap-up and Review
(no new material)

-

LL11

PM 5

Test 4

Data Visualization and Excel

14

Dec 5 - Dec 8

Final Exam Details
(no new material)

-

-

-

(Bonus Test 4)

-

Note

Labs will start in the second week of the course!

Test Dates and times#

Test/Bonus Test

Date

Time

Duration

Test 1

Thursday Sept 29, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Bonus Test 1

Thursday Oct 6, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Test 2

Thursday Oct 27, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Bonus Test 2

Thursday Nov 3, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Test 3

Thursday Nov 17, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Bonus Test 3

Thursday Nov 24, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Test 4

Thursday Dec 1, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes

Bonus Test 4

Thursday Dec 8, 2022

15:35 - 16:50

75 minutes