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Introduction to data science by using tools and writing programs for acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, exploring, and visualizing data; making data-driven inferences and decisions; and effectively communicating results. Learning data manipulation, data analysis with statistics and machine learning, data communication with information visualization, working with big data using scalable techniques.

Four major goals:
- data wrangling: how to acquire, clean, reshape or sample data so that it’s ready for further processing?
- data exploration: how to analyze the signal in a large, noisy dataset?
- prediction: can inferences and decisions be made based on the available data?
- communication: how can findings be effectively communicated to others?

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Lectures

Tue 11:20-13:10 L112, Wed 10:20-11:10 H313

Textbook

(Required) Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, Joel Grus, O’Reilly, ISBN: 149190142X
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033400.do
Code: https://github.com/joelgrus/data-science-from-scratch

(Optional) Python Data Science Handbook, Jake VanderPlas, O'Reilly, 2016
(free) https://jakevdp.github.io/PythonDataScienceHandbook/
Code: https://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook

Grades

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iEJRLXy-0KZr3B1sA-nj2IkiKXTS45W1BBQSljLeUJ0/edit?usp=sharing

Announcements

no class tomorrow

4/02/18 10:02 PM

Hello all,

Due to a meeting I have to attend, there is no class tomorrow (sorry about the late cancellation). However, there is class on Wednesday. We will talk about the project proposals on Wednesday and have one presentation; we will have one group present the article I posted. See you all on Wednesday.

Post your questions regarding your proposal here, or email me your ideas. Let's do some exiting projects that will rock the data science world. You have all the data you need on the Web and all the tools you need to extract the oil.

Cheers,

Erdoğan

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3/22/18 1:52 AM

The teaching staff has posted a new homework resource.

Title: Project Proposal
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/jde6vr6f8rk2b6/jf1omw08wtt541

Due date: Apr 3, 2018

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/cankaya.edu.tr/spring2018/ceng499/resources

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3/22/18 1:26 AM

The teaching staff has posted a new homework resource.

Title: asg3.ipynb
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Due date: Apr 3, 2018

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Read DSS Chapters 1-2