UIUC STAT 430 - Spring 2021

Announcements

• Exam 1 is at 7:00 PM on Thursday, 03/04/2021.
  • Please make your RVSP on CBTF Online as soon as possible!!!
• All week 5 lecture videos and notes are posted!
• HW 04 is released at 12:01 AM Monday on PrairieLearn!
• Lab 03 solution is published. You can also find the link to the solution on the Labs tab.
• Upcoming deadlines:
  • HW 03 is due at 11:59 PM Friday 02/26/2021.
    • Late submission with up 80% credit: 11:59 PM Sunday 02/28/2021.

You can find reminders on homework deadlines, upcoming exams, changes to the office hours schedule (if needed), etc. here! Make sure you check this section at least once a week!

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Office Hours

• Office hours are held as Live sessions on Campuswire.
  • Hope to see you there!

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Week 1 | 01/25/2021 - 01/31/2021

Lectures

• The installation tutorial videos were recorded for STAT 107 (also taught by me), but the steps are exactly the same for our course so I’m reusing them for us. For all the installing and git commands, see the lab01, Mac OS X and Windows instructions.

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
1.1 Welcome to STAT 430!	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[Syllabus]
1.2 [Python] Installing Python & git	[Mac OS X] [Windows]	[Mac OS X] [Windows]	[Mac OS X] [Windows]
Lab 01 - Intro to Jupyter Notebook			[lab01]
1.3 Basics of Programming	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[1.3]
1.4 Data Types	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[1.4]

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Week 2 | 02/01/2021 - 02/07/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
2.1 Function	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[2.1]
2.2 Control Flow	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[2.2]
Lab 02			[lab02]
2.3 Tuple	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[2.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 1	11:59 PM Tue 02/02/2021	100%

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Week 3 | 02/08/2021 - 02/14/2021

Lectures

Topics	Video	Mirror	Notes
3.1 List	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[3.1]
3.2 Dictionary	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[3.2]
Lab 03			[lab03]
3.3 Errors & Exception Handling	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[3.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 2	11:59 PM Tue 02/09/2021	100%
HW 1	11:59 PM Fri 02/12/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 02/14/2021	80%

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Week 4 | 02/15/2021 - 02/21/2021

Lectures

Topics	Video	Mirror	Notes
4.1 NumPy Basics: Part 1	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[4.1]
4.2 NumPy Basics: Part 2	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[4.2]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 3	11:59 PM Tue 02/16/2021	100%
HW 2	11:59 PM Fri 02/19/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 02/21/2021	80%

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Week 5 | Current Week

• Dates: 02/22/2021 - 02/28/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
5.1 NumPy: Linear Algebra	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[5.1]
5.2 NumPy: Mathematical & Statistical Methods	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[5.2]
Lab 04			[lab04]
5.3 NumPy Application: Random Walks	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[5.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
HW 3	11:59 PM Fri 02/26/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 02/28/2021	80%

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Week 6 | 03/01/2021 - 03/07/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
6.1 Intro to Git & GitHub	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[6.1]
6.2 Git Branches	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[6.2]
Lab 05	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[lab05]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Exam 1	7:00 PM Thu 03/04/2021	100%
Lab 04	11:59 PM Tue 03/02/2020	100%
HW 4	11:59 PM Fri 03/05/2020	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 03/07/2020	80%

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Week 7 | 03/08/2021 - 03/14/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
7.1 pandas: Series	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[7.1]
7.2 pandas: DataFrame	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[7.2]
7.3 pandas: Essential Functionality	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[7.3]
Lab 06			[lab06]
7.4 pandas: Summarizing and Computing Descriptive Statistics	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[7.4]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 05	11:59 PM Thu 03/11/2021	100%

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Week 8 | 03/15/2021 - 03/21/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
8.1 pandas: Reading & Writing Data	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[8.1]
Lab 07			[lab07]
8.2 pandas: Data Cleaning	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[8.2]
8.3 pandas: Data Transformation	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[8.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 06	11:59 PM Tue 03/16/2021	100%
HW 5	11:59 PM Fri 03/19/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 03/21/2021	80%

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Week 9 | 03/22/2021 - 03/28/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
9.1 pandas: Data Wrangling	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[9.1]
9.2 pandas: GroupBy Mechanics	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[9.2]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 07	11:59 PM Tue 03/23/2021	100%
HW 6	11:59 PM Fri 03/26/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 03/28/2021	80%

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Week 10 | 03/29/2021 - 04/04/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
10.1 Data Aggregation	[[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[10.1]
Lab 08			[lab08]
10.2 String Manipulation	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[10.2]
10.3 Regular Expressions	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[10.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
HW 7	11:59 PM Fri, 04/02/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun, 04/04/2021	80%

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Week 11 | 04/05/2021 - 04/11/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
11.1 Plotting with Matplotlib.pyplot	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[11.1]
11.2 Plotting with seaborn	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[11.2]
11.3 Intro to Plotly - Plotly Express	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[11.3]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 08	11:59 PM Tue 04/06/2021	100%
HW 7	11:59 PM Fri 04/09/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 04/11/2021	80%

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Week 12 | 04/12/2021 - 04/18/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
12.1 Web App with Dash	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[13.1]
12.2 Interactivity - Call Back in Dash	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[13.2]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Exam 2	7:00 PM Thu 04/15/2021	100%
HW 9	11:59 PM Fri 04/16/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 04/18/2021	80%

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Week 13 | 04/19/2021 - 04/25/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
13.1 Extremely Brief Intro to Machine Learning in Python	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[13.1]
13.2 Regression Models with sklearn	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[13.2]
Lab 09			[lab09]
13.3 Other Supervised Learning Methods in Python - Part 1	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[13.3]

Deadlines

• No deadline this week.

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Week 14 | 04/26/2021 - 05/02/2021

Lectures

Topic	Video	Mirror	Notes
14.1 Other Supervised Learning Methods in Python - Part 2	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[14.1]
Lab 10			[lab10]
14.2 Unsupervised Learning in Python	[YouTube]	[Media Space]	[14.2]

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 09	11:59 PM Tue 04/07/2021	100%
HW 10	11:59 PM Fri 04/30/2021	100%
	11:59 PM Sun 05/02/2021	80%

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Week 15 | 05/03/2021 - 05/09/2021

Lectures

• No lecture. Work on final project.

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Lab 10	11:59 PM Tue 05/04/2021	100%

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Week 16 | 05/10/2021 - 05/16/2021

Deadlines

Assignment	Deadline	Credit
Final Project	TBD	100%

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REMEMBER!

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