Betamore: Applications of Data Science

Spring 2017

INSTRUCTOR

Hunter Jackson

• Chief Scientific Officer at Proscia
• Ph.D. Candidate in Mathematics at Hopkins

COURSE OUTLINE

Each class will be an engaging, interactive session where we build tools together to make predictions about our data. The classes will be focused on actually building the predictive tools; however, each class will have supplementary lecture notes that describe the methodologies in further detail and extra programming tasks if anyone wants extra practice.

Course Info

Class: M/W 6 - 9 pm @ Betamore

Office hours: TBD

Class 1: Course Intro + Installation:

• Class intro: slides
• Class 1 Notes: slides
• Install git and create a github account
• Install conda
• Intro to ipython notebooks
• Python style guide
• Think like a computer scientist
• Tons of additional resources here
• Intro to course project

Class 2: Command Line + Python Basics:

• GA Command Line Tutorial
• Git Tutorial
• First, Second, Third, Fourth Python Basics notebooks
• Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Review Python Basics notebooks