Instructor: Dr. Isabel K. Darcy
Department of Mathematics and AMCS
University of Iowa
Office: MLH 25J
Phone: 319-335- 0770
Email: isabel-darcy AT uiowa.edu
Office Hours: In person: M 12- 12:20pm and 2:30 – 3pm+ WF 12- 12:20pm and 1:30 – 2pm+
Via zoom: Th 5:30-6pm & by appointment
Note: + means I will be also available directly after the office hour, normally for as long as needed.
Ways to get help:
HW will consist of weekly labs and ICON quizzes, etc.
Our final exam will consist of 3 parts:
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE-ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE (click on date/section for file of corresponding class material):
| Tentative Schedule | HW/Announcements | |
| Week 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4/3 | Introduction to data analysis | LAB 1: creating artificial data, downloading real data, intro to cleaning data, PCA |
| 4/5 | Data cleaning, PCA, intro to ML | |
| 4/7 | Clustering | |
| Week 12 | ||
| 4/10 | Hierarchical Clustering, Noise | LAB 2: Clustering |
| 4/12 | k-means clustering, Linear Regression | |
| 4/14 | Variance, Linear Regression, p-values | |
| Week 13 | ||
| 4/17 | p-values, preview, Linear vs Logistic Regression |
LAB 3: Linear regression Poster draft 1 due Friday 4/21 |
| 4/19 | Logistic Regression | |
| 4/21 | Logistic Regression, test vs train | |
| Week 14 | ||
| 4/24 | Test vs Train |
LAB 4: Logistic regression
Poster draft 2 due Friday 4/28 |
| 4/26 | Data Leakage, PCA | |
| 4/28 | PCA, Ethics | |
| Week 15 | ||
| 5/1 | Ethics, reproducible research, publication bias, data privacy |
LAB 5: Regression (single vs multi-variable) Poster draft 3 and written project draft due Thursday 5/4 |
| 5/3 | multi-variable linear regression (see ICON for notes) | |
| 5/5 | Presentations, Review | |
| Final's week | ||
| Final exam: 10:00AM - 12:00PM 05/08/2023 Mon 113 MLH: More Presentations. | ||