essarelle / 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 GR4243/5243 Applied Data Science

Fall 2019 - 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 4/5)

• Introduction to ADS (TZ version)
• Project 1 description
• Tutorial 1 R Notebook + Example: Repo | Knitted HTML R Notebook | Presentation
• A tutorial on GitHub

Week 2 (Sep 11/12)

• An example R notebook on presidential speeches (HTML)
  • zipped folder
  • known running issues & solutions, prepared by Yang Yang @jokerkeny
• Overview of starter codes
• Interactive Word Cloud
• Data Story Examples: Example 1 (repo), Example 2.
• Discussion and Q&A
• Check out our Piazza Q&A discussion board for access to (optional) additional tutorials from our ADS DataCamp Classroom.

Week 3 (Sep 18/19)

• Project 1 presentations.

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 3 | Project 4

Project cycle 2: Shiny App Development

(starter codes)

Week 3 (Sep 18/19)

• 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
    • a short tutorial to get you started.

Week 4 (Sep 25/26)

• Spatial data visualization
• Tutorial on project 2 - Introduction to shiny app (app)
• Shiny Tutorial (zipped folder) (online link)
• Shiny Examples from 2019 Spring (Example 1: Online, Repo; Example 2: Online, Repo)
• A note on contribution
• Discussion and Q&A

Week 5 (Oct 2/3)

• Feebback on project 1
• Tutorial on SQL in R(zipped folder)
• Tutorial on RShiny Deployment in GCP
• Tutorial on giving presentations
• Brainstorm on project 2

Week 6 (Oct 9/10)

• Project 2 presentations

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 4

Project cycle 3: Predictive Modeling

(starter codes)

Week 6 (Oct 9/10)

• Project 3 starts.
  • Check Piazza for your project team and GitHub join link.
  • 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 (motivation)
    • an example main.rmd that provides an example structure for this project. Example main.Rmd

Week 7 (Oct 16/17)

• Recap on project 3 requirements and starter codes.
• Tutorials + Q&A
  • Tutorials: Basic Image Analysis (zipped folder) + Fiducial Detection
  • Tutorial on gradient boosting machines (GBM)
    • A shiny app on GBM [R codes]

Week 8 (Oct 23/24)

• Overview on predictive modeling

• Project submission checklist
• Discussion

Week 9 (Oct 30/Nov 1)

• Project 3 submission and presentations

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Shortcuts: Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3

Project cycle 4: Algorithm implementation and evaluation

Week 9 (Oct 30/Nov 1)

Weeks 10 (Nov 6/7)

Weeks 11 (Nov 13/14)

Weeks 12 (Nov 20/21)

• Project 4 presentations

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

Project cycle 5:

Weeks 12 (Nov 20/21)

• Project 5 discussions

Thanksgiving Break

Week 13 (Dec 4/5)

• Project 5 presentations

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