Instructor: Tiffany Tseng [email protected]

TAs:

• Amaya Kejriwal [email protected]
• Justin Zeng [email protected]
• Erin Ma [email protected]
• Ken Mah [email protected]

Lectures:

S01 - MW 11:40-12:55pm - 140 Horace Mann

S02 - MW 1:10-2:25pm - 152 Horace Mann

Jupyter Hub Link:

https://bccoms-1016-tseng-20251.hub.cuit.columbia.edu/

Labs:

S01 - W 5:00-6:30pm Amaya

S02 - TH 10:00-11:30am - Justin

S03 - TH 1:00-2:30pm - Erin

S04 - TH 3:00-4:30pm - Ken

Office Hours

Tue 10:30-12:00 - Justin (Milstein 503)

Tue 2:00-3:00 - Tiffany Tseng (Milstein 506)

Tue 3:00-4:30 - Amaya (Milstein 503)

Wed 2:30-4:00 - Erin (via Google Meet)

Fri 12:00-1:30 - Ken (Milstein 503)

Course Calendar

• slides
• class demo | | | | 2 | 1/27 | 2 | Cause and Effect
• slides | | | | | 1/29 | 3 | Python Intro: Expressions & Data Types
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• class exercise
• class demo
• class exercise solutions | Lab 1: Jupyter Notebooks & Expressions | | | 3 | 2/3 | 4 | Tables
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• class activity, class activity solutions
• class demo | | HW 1: Arrays & Tables (Due Wed 2/12) | | | 2/5 | 5 | Charts
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• class demo | Lab 2: Table Operations | | | 4 | 2/10 | 6 | Histograms
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• class demo | | HW 2: Table Manipulation and Visualization (Due Wed 2/19) | | | 2/12 | 7 | Histograms & Charts Continued
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• class demo | Lab 3: Data Types & Arrays | | | 5 | 2/17 | 8 | Functions & Groups
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• class demo | | HW 3: Functions, Tables, and Groups (Due Wed 2/26) | | | 2/19 | 9 | Pivots & Joins
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• class demo | Lab 4: Functions & Visualizations | | | 6 | 2/24 | 10 | Conditionals and Iteration
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• class demo | | HW 4: Probability, Simulation, Estimation (Due Wed 3/5) | | | 2/26 | 11 | Probability and Sampling
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• class demo | Lab 5: Simulations | | | 7 | 3/3 | - | Midterm Review
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• recording | | | | | 3/5 | 12 | Models & Empirical Simulations
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• class demo | | | | 8 | 3/10 | - | Midterm Exam | | | | | 3/12 | - | Computing Fellows Workshop
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• slides | | | | 9 | 3/17 | - | Spring Break 🌴 | | | | | 3/19 | - | Spring Break 🌴 | | | | 10 | 3/24 | 13 | Hypothesis Testing
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• class demo | | HW 5: Testing Hypotheses (Due Wed 4/2) | | | 3/26 | 14 | Statistical Significance
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• class demo | Lab 6: Assessing Models | | | 11 | 3/31 | 15 | A/B Testing
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• class demo | | HW 6: Confidence Intervals (Due Wed 4/9) | | | 4/2 | 16 | Confidence Intervals
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• class demo | Lab 7: A/B Testing | | | 12 | 4/7 | 17 | Normal Distribution
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• class demo | | HW 7: Sample Sizes (Due Wed 4/16) | | | 4/9 | 18 | Sample Means
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• class demo | Lab 8: Sample Means | Final Project Group Declaration due Fri 4/11 at 11:59pm | | 13 | 4/14 | 19 | Correlation & Linear Regression
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• class demo | | Final Project Proposal Due Mon 4/14 at 11:59pm

HW 8: Linear Regression (Due Wed 4/23) | | | 4/16 | 20 | Least Squares & Residuals

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• class demo | Lab 9: Regression | | | 14 | 4/21 | 21 | Regression Inference
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• class demo | | HW 9: Regression Inference (Due Wed 4/30) | | | 4/23 | 22 | Common Errors with Data
• slides | Lab: Final Project work time | Final Project Progress Report due Friday 4/25 at 11:59pm | | 15 | 4/28 | 23 | Data Science Pathways Panel with Special Guests | | | | | 4/30 | 24 | Data Ethics
• slides | Lab: Final Project Consultations | | | 16 | 5/5 | 25 - Last class | Wrap Up
• slides | | Final Project Report due Fri 5/9 at 11:59pm |

Final Project

Final Project Guidelines

Syllabus

COMS BC1016 Syllabus

Python Reference

Data8 Python Reference: https://www.data8.org/fa24/reference/

DataScience Python Library Developer Documentation: https://www.data8.org/datascience/

Data8 Textbook

https://inferentialthinking.com/chapters/intro.html