Lectures

Copyright (c) 2024 Danilo Freire

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The course covers the following topics, with corresponding lecture materials available in the lectures folder. Please refer to the syllabus for additional suggested readings on each topic. Links will be added as the materials are posted.

Module 01: Introduction to Python, Jupyter, and GitHub

Wednesday, August 28:

Suggested references:

Monday, September 02: Labour Day (no class)

Wednesday, September 04:

Suggested references:

Module 02: Introduction to the Command Line Interface and Version Control

Monday September 09:

Suggested references:

Wednesday, September 11:

Suggested references:

Monday, September 16:

Suggested references:

Wednesday, September 18:

Suggested references:

Monday, September 23:

Module 03: Literate Programming with Markdown, Quarto, and Jupyter

Wednesday, September 25:

Suggested references:

Monday, September 30:

Suggested references:

Wednesday, October 02:

  • Lecture 10: Quiz 02: Literate Programming (6%).
  • Assignment 05: Problem Set 05.
  • Assignment 04 due (5%).

Module 04: AI-Assisted Programming

Monday, October 07:

Suggested references:

Wednesday, October 09:

Suggested references:

Module 05: Data Manipulation with Python

Monday, October 14: Fall Break (no class)

Wednesday, October 16:

Suggested references:

Monday, October 21:

Wednesday, October 23:

Suggested references:

Monday, October 28:

  • Lecture 16: Quiz 03: Python for Data Analysis (6%).

Module 06: Introduction to SQL Databases

Wednesday, October 30:

Suggested references:

Monday, November 04:

Wednesday, November 06:

Suggested references:

Monday, November 11:

  • Lecture 20: Quiz 04: SQL Databases (6%).

Module 07: Parallel Computing

Wednesday, November 13:

Suggested references:

Monday, November 18:

Suggested references:

Module 08: Containers and Reproducibility

Wednesday, November 20:

Suggested references:

Monday, November 25:

  • Lecture 24: Docker for Data Science.

Wednesday, November 27: Thanksgiving Break (no class)

Monday, December 02:

  • Lecture 25: Quiz 05: Dask, Docker and Containers (6%).

Wednesday, December 04:

  • Lecture 26: Review and Final Project Discussion.

Monday, December 09:

  • Final Project due (20%).
Back to top