Topic Name Description
URL Recommended Textbooks

There are two books I recommend. You should be able to find them online for free. 

1. Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas

2. Hands-on Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow, 2nd Edition by Aurelien Geron


Interesting Articles URL New Machine Learning Theory Raises Questions About the Very Nature of Science
URL Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
URL New ‘Liquid’ AI Learns Continuously From Its Experience of the World
URL ‘Weird new things are happening in software,’ says Stanford AI professor Chris Re
URL The GANfather: The man who’s given machines the gift of imagination
Week One: 1/4-1/7 File Lecture: What is Data Science?
URL 2/2 Class Recording
File Lecture: Getting Started with Python
File Lecture Materials: Scripts

These are the code snippets I would like you to use in class. Hopefully, this makes it easier to copy/paste.

URL 2/4 Class Recording
File Lecture: Intro to NumPy
Folder 2/9: Intro to NumPy Jupyter Notebook

There is a notebook file (which you should be able to open in Jupyter Notebook) and a pdf so you can see the code we worked on in class. 

URL Class Recording
File Lecture: NumPy More
Folder Class Notebook

There is a notebook file (which you should be able to open in Jupyter Notebook) and a pdf so you can see the code we worked on in class. 



URL Class Recording
File Earthquake Data
Week Two: 1/10-1/14 File Lecture: NumPy and Pandas
File Baby Names Data File
URL Class Recording
Folder Class Notebook

Included are the Jupyter Notebook, py, and pdf versions of the class notebook from this lecture.

File Olympic Games Dataset
File NOC Dataset
File Lecture Slides: Pandas and Matplotlib
URL Class Recording
Folder Class Notebook

Folder includes pdf, python, and Jupyter Notebook formats. 

Folder Datasets
Folder Class Notebook

Python, Notebook, and pdf versions included.

File Lecture Slides: Visualization

These are short because it was so hot in Olin. I wonder how many times the temp was referred to in the recording.

URL Class Recording
Week Three: 1/18-1/20 URL Class Recording 3/2
File Lecture Slides: Binary Classification/Cross-Validation
URL Class Recording
Folder Class Notebook

pdf, notebook, and py versions of the classwork.

File Lecture Slides
Folder Class Notebook

This was a continuation from the previous notebook.

Week Four: 1/24-28 File Article: Hyperparameter Importance
File Article: Hyperparameter Optimization
File Lecture: Decision Trees and Hyperparameters