zinozhang/ADS_Teaching

Teaching repo for Applied Data Science @ Columbia, a project-based course for data science skills (statistical thinking, machine learning, data engineering, team work, presentation, endurance of frustration, etc).

Stat GU4243/GR5243 Applied Data Science

Fall 2021 - Teaching Materials (Syllabus)

Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4

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Project cycle 1: (Individual) R notebook for exploratory data analysis

(starter codes)

Week 1 (Sep 15)

• Introduction to ADS
• Project 1 description
• Tutorial 1 R Notebook + Example: Repo | Knitted HTML R Notebook | Presentation + More Examples: Repo1, Repo2, Repo3, Repo4
• A tutorial on GitHub

Week 2 (Sep 22)

• Recap on last week
• Overview of starter codes
• An example R notebook on presidential speeches (HTML)
• Interactive Word Cloud
• Submission and presentation for project 1
• Discussion and Q&A

Week 3 (Sep 29)

• Project 1 presentations.

Finished student projects

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 3 | Project 4

Project cycle 2: Shiny App Development

(starter codes)

Week 3 (Sep 29)

• Project 2 starts.
  • Check Piazza for your project team and GitHub join link.
  • After you join project 2, you can clone your team's GitHub repo to your local computer.
  • You can find in the starter codes
    • the project description,
    • an example toy shiny app

Week 4 (Oct 6)

• Spatial data visualization
• Tutorial on project 2 - Introduction to shiny app (app)
• Shiny Tutorial (zipped folder) (online link)
• Shiny Examples from previous semesters (Example 1: Online, Repo; Example 2: Online, Repo)
• A note on contribution
• Discussion and Q&A

Week 5 (Oct 13)

• Tutorial on SQL in R(zipped folder)
• Tutorial on RShiny Deployment in GCP
• Tutorial on giving presentations
• Discussion on project 2

Week 6 (Oct 20)

• Project 2 presentations

Finished student projects

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 4

Project cycle 3: Predictive Modeling

(starter codes)

Week 6 (Oct 20)

• Project 3 starts.
  • Check Piazza for your project team and GitHub join link at the end of this week.
  • After you join project 3, you can clone your team's GitHub repo to your local computer.
  • You can find in the starter codes
    • Intro to Project 3

Week 7 (Oct 27)

Week 8 (Nov 3)

Week 9 (Nov 10)

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3

Project cycle 4: Algorithm implementation and evaluation

Week 9 (Nov 10)

Week 10 (Nov 17)

Thanksgiving Break

Week 11 (Dec 1)

Week 12 (Dec 8)

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4