This page contains the lesson plan for DS 121 lectures.

All lectures will be livestreamed on Zoom. The lecture notes and videos will be made available after each lecture. All lecture and discussion lab notes are available on Google drive.

Week	Topic	Reading	Due dates
1	Vectors [Lecture 1 video] [Lecture 2 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 1 and 2.1 3Blue1Brown video 1 and video 2
2	Vector algebra [Lecture 3 video] [Lecture 4 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 5.1-5.2 Deisenroth-Faisal-Ong Chapter 2.1-2.3 3Blue1Brown video 3 and video 4	HW1 due 9/15
3	Vector geometry & Clustering [Lecture 5 video] [Lecture 6 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 3 3Blue1Brown video 5 and video 6	HW2 due 9/22
4	Supervised learning [Lecture 7 video] [Lecture 8 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 4	HW3 due 9/29
5	Matrix algebra [Lecture 9 video]	No new reading, but recommend Aggarwal Section 1.1-1.2.1 as test review	TEST1 on 10/5
6	Matrix geometry [Lecture 10 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 6 and 7.1	(note: go to discussion labs, not lecture, on 10/10) HW4 due 10/13
7	Matrix inverses & LU decomposition [Lecture 11 video] [Lecture 12 video]	Aggarwal Section 2.1 and 2.3	HW5 due 10/20
8	Vector subspaces [Lecture 13 video] [Lecture 14 video]	Aggarwal Section 2.4-2.5 3Blue1Brown video 7 and video 8	HW6 due 10/27
9	Orthogonality & QR decomposition [Lecture 15 video] [Lecture 16 video]	Aggarwal Sections 2.6-2.7.2 Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 10 3Blue1Brown video 9	HW7 due 11/3
10	Linear regression [Lecture 17 partial video]	No new reading, but recommend Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 11 as test review	TEST2 on 11/9
11	Markov chains & Eigenvalues [Lecture 18 video] [Lecture 19 video]	Boyd-Vandenberghe Chapter 12 Deisenroth-Faisal-Ong Section 4.2 3Blue1Brown video 13 and video 14	HW8 due 11/17
12	PageRank [Lecture 20 video]	Aggarwal Sections 10.1-10.3 and 10.6	(note: no lecture on 11/23)
13	Diagonalization [Lecture 21 video] [Lecture 22 video]	Deisenroth-Faisal-Ong Section 4.4	HW9 due 12/1
14	SVD & PCA [Lecture 23 video] [Lecture 24 video]	Aggarwal Sections 7.1-7.4	HW10 due 12/8
15	Course recap [Lecture 25 video]	Aggarwal Sections 8.1-8.2	(note: no lecture on 12/14)
			FINAL EXAM on 12/19