Announcements

  • HW 12 is due Thursday, 4/26 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 4/25 at 11:59pm.
  • HW 11 is due Thursday, 4/19 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 4/18 at 11:59pm.

  • The Project 3 checkpoint is due on Friday, 4/20. The project is due on Friday 4/27.

  • HW 10 is due Thursday, 4/12 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 4/11 at 11:59pm.
  • HW 9 is due Thursday, 4/5 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 4/4 at 11:59pm.
  • HW 8 is due Thursday, 3/22 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 3/21 at 11:59pm.

  • Project 2 has been released. The checkpoint is due on Friday, 3/23. The project is due on Friday 4/6.

  • The Midsemester grade summary report has been released on Piazza.

  • Midterm Reference Sheet has been posted on Piazza, no handwritten cheat sheet for exam;

  • Review materials (past exams, assignment solutions, etc.) have been posted on Piazza.

  • The Head GSIs are conducting a review session on Tuesday night (8-9:30 PM) in 2050 VLSB.

  • DSP accommodations should have been finalized as of 3/4. If you have not sent in your DSP letter yet, contact Scott Lee (scott.lee.3898@berkeley.edu) immediately.

  • Office hours rooms have been updated to larger classrooms and will remain that way for the rest of the semester.

  • No tutoring this week.

  • HW 7 is due Wednesday, 3/7 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Tuesday, 3/6 at 11:59pm.
  • HW 6 is due Thursday, 3/1 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 2/28 at 11:59pm.
  • HW 5 is due Thursday, 2/22 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 2/21 at 11:59pm.

  • The Project 1 checkpoint is due on Friday, 2/16 at 11:59pm.

  • Course Director/Head GSI Vinitra Swamy will be holding a conceptual office hour on functions in 413 Evans from 11 AM - 12 PM on Thursday 2/15. This is an hour to ask any conceptual questions or doubts regarding the programming fundamentals portion of course material. She will not be answering homework, lab, or project questions.
  • Project 1 will be released this Friday, 2/9. There is a checkpoint on Friday, 2/16, and the project will be due on Friday, 2/23.

  • HW 4 is due Thursday, 2/15 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 2/14 at 11:59pm.

  • HW 3 has been released and is due Thursday, 2/8 at 11:59pm. You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 2/7 at 11:59pm.
  • Data 8 offer 1 hour small group tutoring sections as an additional resource for this course. More information including sign-up details can be found in this piazza post

  • HW02 has been released and is due Thursday, 2/1 at 11:59pm You will receive an early submission bonus point if you turn in your final submission by Wednesday, 1/31 at 11:59pm.

  • HW 1 is due Thursday.

  • You will receive an extra credit point for submitting hw by Wednesday at 11:59pm.

  • Attendance credit starts this week.

  • There is a mandatory welcome survey as part of HW 1.

  • Homework 01 has been published and will be due Thursday 1/25. If you turn it in by Wednesday 1/24, you will get an extra credit point on the homework. It also includes a mandatory survey at the end. Start early and come to office hours for help!

  • Attendance will be captured starting next week.

A few reminders:

  • Policies Page is important, read through it.

  • Enrollment policy: You must attend your lab on CalCentral, and we are not doing a swapping labs or manual additional waitlist policy. Everything is done through CalCentral.

  • Sign up for one of our connector courses

  • Welcome to the start of the semester! Please sign up for Piazza. We'll use it to answer questions, post announcements, and more.

  • Lab starts this week. Bring a laptop. You can borrow one for the semester from the library if you don't have your own. See Piazza for details.

  • Sign up for one of our connector courses

  • Create your computing account by going to datahub.berkeley.edu and logging in with your @berkeley.edu account. Try starting your server. It takes about a minute. If you have problems, let us know by coming to lab and asking questions or posting on Piazza

Calendar

Instructor: Ani Adhikari

Lecture: MWF 10-11 in 150 Wheeler

Date Topic Lecture Reading Assignment
Wed 1/17 Introduction Demos, Slides 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Fri 1/19 Cause and Effect Slides, Video Chapter 2
Homework 01 (Due Thu 1/25)
Mon 1/22 Tables Demos, Slides, Video Chapter 3
Wed 1/24 Data Types Demos, Slides, Video Chapters 4, 5
Fri 1/26 Building Tables Demos, Slides, Video 6.1, 6.2
Homework 02 (Due Thu 2/1)
Mon 1/29 Census Demos, Slides, Video 6.3, 6.4
Wed 1/31 Charts Demos, Slides, Video 7, 7.1
Fri 2/2 Histograms Demos, Slides, Video 7.2, 7.3
Homework 03 (Due Thu 2/8)
Mon 2/5 Functions Demos, Slides, Video 8, 8.1
Wed 2/7 Groups Demos, Slides, Video 8.2, 8.3
Fri 2/9 Joins Demos, Slides, Video 8.4, 8.5
Homework 04 (Due Thu 2/15)
(Checkpoint Fri 2/16; Due Fri 2/23)
Mon 2/12 Table Examples Demos, Slides, Video 8.5
Wed 2/14 Iteration Demos, Slides, Video 9, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Lab: Project 1
Fri 2/16 Chance Demos, Slides, Video 9.4, 9.5
Homework 05 (Due Thu 2/22)
Mon 2/19 Holiday: No Lecture
Wed 2/21 Sampling Demos, Slides, Video 10, 10.1, 10.2
Fri 2/23 Models Demos, Slides, Video 10.3, 11.1
Homework 06 (Due Thu 3/1)
Mon 2/26 Comparing Distributions Demos, Slides, Video 11.1, 11.2
Wed 2/28 Decisions and Uncertainty Demos, Slides, Video 11.3
Fri 3/2 A/B Testing Demos, Slides, Video 12.1, 12.2
Homework 07 (Due Wed 3/7)
Mon 3/5 Causality Demos, Slides, Video 12.3
Wed 3/7 Examples Slides, Video
Lab: Midterm Review
Fri 3/9 Midterm
Mon 3/12 Confidence Intervals Demos, Slides, Video 13, 13.1, 13.2
Wed 3/14 Interpreting Confidence Demos, Slides, Video 13.3, 13.4
Fri 3/16 Center and Spread Demos, Slides, Video 14, 14.1, 14.2
Homework 08 (Due Thu 3/22)
(Checkpoint Fri 3/23; Due Fri 4/6)
Mon 3/19 The Normal Distribution Demos, Slides, Video 14.3, 14.4
Wed 3/21 Sample Means Demos, Slides, Video 14.5
Lab: Project 2
Fri 3/23 Designing Experiments Demos, Slides, Video 14.6
Homework 09 (Due Thu 4/5)
Mon 3/26 Holiday: No Lecture
Wed 3/28 Holiday: No Lecture
Fri 3/30 Holiday: No Lecture
Mon 4/2 Correlation Demos, Slides, Video 15, 15.1
Wed 4/4 Linear Regression Demos, Slides, Video 15.2
Fri 4/6 Least Squares Demos, Slides, Video 15.3, 15.4
Homework 10 (Due Thu 4/12)
Mon 4/9 Residuals Demos, Slides, Video 15.5, 15.6
Wed 4/11 Regression Inference Demos, Slides, Video Chapter 16
Fri 4/13 Privacy (tentative) Video
Homework 11 (Due Thu 4/19)
(Checkpoint Fri 4/20; Due Fri 4/27)
Mon 4/16 Classification Demos, Slides, Video 17, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Wed 4/18 Classifiers Demos, Slides, Video 17.4
Lab: Project 3
Fri 4/20 Decisions Demos, Slides, Video Chapter 18
Homework 12 (Due Thu 4/26)
Mon 4/23 Case Study: Health Demos, Slides, Video
Wed 4/25 Review Demos, Slides, Video
Fri 4/27 Conclusion Video