Course Schedule¶

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

#	Week	Topics	Lab	Logs	Project Milestones	Tests	Concepts Tested
1	Sept 6-12	Introduction to Data Analytics Course Setup	-		-	Test 0	Course policies
2	Sept 13-19	Command-line and Jupyter Notebook	Lab 1	LL1	-	(Bonus Test 0)	-
3	Sept 20-26	Introduction to Version Control with Git	Lab 2	LL2	PM 1	-	-
4	Sept 27 - Oct 3	Introduction to Python	Lab 3	LL3	-	Test 1	Command Line and Git
5	Oct 4 - 10	Exploratory Data analyis	Lab 4	LL4	PM 2	(Bonus Test 1)	-
6	Oct 11 - 17	Rest and Catchup (no new material)	-	-	-	-	-
7	Oct 18 - 24	Programming in Python	Lab 5	LL5	-	Test 2	Python Programming
8	Oct 25 - Oct 31	Data Visualization	Lab 6	LL6	PM 3	(Bonus Test 2)
9	Nov 1 - 7	Choosing an appropriate visualization	Lab 7	LL7	-	Test 3	Python and Pandas
10	Nov 8 - 14	Reading week (no new material)	-	-	-	(Bonus Test 3)	-
11	Nov 15 - 21	Tableau and Microsoft Excel	Lab 8	LL8	PM 4	-	-
12	Nov 22 - 28	Microsoft Excel & Project Wrap-up	Lab 9	LL9	PM 5	Test 4	Data Visualization and Excel
13	Nov 29 - Dec 8	Project Wrap-up and Review (no new material)	Lab 10	LL10	-	(Bonus Test 4)	-