% Day 15: Midterm Preparation / Cloud Computing Teaser / Study Hall % Raymond Yee % March 12, 2013 (http://bit.ly/wwod1315)
- I'm still grading homework but did release a tally of homework received in bSpace.
- Midterm
- Study Hall
- on Thursday 3/14, I'll come back to baby names and introduce cloud computation, PiCloud, Amazon AWS and give you a preview of Common Crawl.
- on Tues 3/17, we'll have an in-class midterm, which I expect will take about an hour
- on Thursday 3/19, Dave Lester will come talk to us about Common Crawl
- then spring break...
- on Thursday 4/4, Fernando Pérez will be our guest speaker
- Friday, April 12 1-4pm 205 South Hall, Juriscraper workshop (attendance optional)
- Tuesday, May 7 2-3:30pm: Class Poster Session/Open House
Day 17: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 -- in class
The midterm is an opportunity to review and consolidate the materials we've covered so far in class. Questions will focus on large conceptual understanding of the materials and will draw heavily from the problem sets, project proposals, the guest lectures, and the data sets we've analyzed. Programming questions won't require a computer to answer.
A reminder of the assigned reading so far:
- Python for Data Analysis (PfDA), Chapters 1-5, 8, Appendix (review of Python)
- Courtlistener slides
- early readings on open data, data.gov
The technical materials in the class we've covered:
- Python constructs: itertools (e.g., islice), generators, datetime.datetime, time, requests library Day 10, p 10
- basics of numpy and Pandas Series, DataFrame ( slice notation, groupby) at the level of techniques used in the problem sets (https://piazza.com/berkeley/spring2013/info290t/resources -> HW Days 2, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14
Data sets we've studied:
As for your projects: be prepared to answer questions about your project proposals. That is, even though you are proposing group projects, each of you should be able to answer fundamental questions about your proposal.
Day_15_Sample_Python_Questions notebook