Week Units and Topics Resources Due
Week 1
  • Unit 1: Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks
  • Jupyter Notebooks

  • Unit 2: NumPy
  • The Data Analytics Ecosystem
  • NumPy ndarrays
  • NumPy Statistical Functions
  • Basic Indexing and Slicing
  • Importing Data Into NumPy Arrays
Week 2
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Reading CSV Files
  • Pandas DataFrames

  • Reading Excel Files
  • Bringing Code into Notebooks
  • DataFrame Attributes
  • Understanding Data Types
Due Fri (8/29):
Ex 1.1
Ex 2.1
Quiz
Week 3
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Summary Stats of a DataFrame
  • Min, Mean, Sum, and Describe Methods
  • Create Custom Datasets
Due Fri (9/5):
Ex 3.1
Ex 3.2
Quiz
Week 4
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Filtering DataFrames
  • Filtering: query()
  • Operators
  • Checking Filter with unique()
Due Fri (9/12):
Ex 3.4
Week 5
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Sorting a DataFrame
  • Changing Data Types
  • Top N with iloc[]
Due Fri (9/19):
Ex 3.5
Quiz
Week 6
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Lab 1 - Filtering and Sorting
Due Fri (9/26):
Lab 1
Week 7
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Groupby Operations - One Column
  • Adding New Columns to DataFrames
Due Fri (10/3):
Ex 3.6
Week 8
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Groupby Operations - Two Columns
Due Fri (10/10):
Ex 3.7
Oct. 13-19: Fall Break - No Class
Week 9
  • Unit 3: Pandas
  • Lab 2 - Groupby Lab
Due Fri (10/24):
Lab 2
Week 10
  • Unit 4: Visualizing Data with Python
  • Simple Plots with Matplotlib
  • DataFrame Plots with Seaborn
Due Fri (10/31):
4.1
Week 11
  • Unit 4: Visualizing Data with Python
  • Integrating Structurally Different Data Sets Into a Single DataFrame
Due Fri (11/7):
4.2
Quiz
Week 12
  • Unit 4: Visualizing Data with Python
  • Simple Bar Charts with Plotly Express
  • Formatting Bar Chart Labels
Due Fri (11/14):
4.5
4.6
Quiz
Week 13
  • Unit 5: Statistical Analysis and Visualization
  • Peform Basic Statistical Analyses
  • Plots of Summary Statistics
Due Fri (11/21):
5.1
Week 14
  • Unit 5: Statistical Analysis and Visualization
  • Compute Correlations Among Variables
Due Fri (11/28):
5.2
Quiz
Week 15
  • Final Exam Report
Due Fri (12/5):
Final Exam Report