CMPT 353 Lecture Notes

  1. Course Introduction [“Course Introduction” slides]
    1. This Course [This Course slides]
    2. Offering Strategy [Offering Strategy slides]
    3. Grades [Grades slides]
    4. Exercises [Exercises slides]
    5. Project [Project slides]
    6. Quizzes/Exam [Quizzes/Exam slides]
    7. Us [Us slides]
    8. Lectures and Labs [Lectures and Labs slides]
    9. References [References slides]
    10. Programming [Programming slides]
    11. Expectations [Expectations slides]
    12. Computational Data Science? [Computational Data Science? slides]
    13. Data Science? [Data Science? slides]
    14. Why Data Science? [Why Data Science? slides]
    15. Topics (1) [Topics (1) slides]
  2. Data Analysis Pipeline [“Data Analysis Pipeline” slides]
    1. Your Question [Your Question slides]
    2. Getting Data [Getting Data slides]
    3. Preparing Data [Preparing Data slides]
    4. Analyzing Data [Analyzing Data slides]
    5. Presenting Results [Presenting Results slides]
    6. Creating a Pipeline [Creating a Pipeline slides]
    7. Manual Pipeline Steps [Manual Pipeline Steps slides]
    8. The Pipeline [The Pipeline slides]
  3. Data In Python [“Data In Python” slides]
    1. Built-In Data Structures [Built-In Data Structures slides]
    2. NumPy [NumPy slides]
    3. Operating on Arrays [Operating on Arrays slides]
    4. Pandas [Pandas slides]
    5. Working With Pandas [Working With Pandas slides]
  4. Getting Data [“Getting Data” slides]
    1. Where Data Comes From [Where Data Comes From slides]
    2. Data from Files [Data from Files slides]
    3. Databases [Databases slides]
    4. Web APIs [Web APIs slides]
    5. Scraping HTML [Scraping HTML slides]
    6. File Formats [File Formats slides]
    7. CSV [CSV slides]
    8. JSON [JSON slides]
    9. XML [XML slides]
    10. Others [Others slides]
  5. Extract-Transform-Load [“Extract-Transform-Load” slides]
    1. Extract [Extract slides]
    2. Transform [Transform slides]
    3. Load [Load slides]
    4. Summary [Summary slides]
  6. Noise Filtering [“Noise Filtering” slides]
    1. Noise [Noise slides]
    2. LOESS Smoothing [LOESS Smoothing slides]
    3. LOESS in Python [LOESS in Python slides]
    4. Kalman Filtering [Kalman Filtering slides]
    5. Probability Distributions [Probability Distributions slides]
    6. Kalman Operation [Kalman Operation slides]
    7. Kalman Predictions [Kalman Predictions slides]
    8. Kalman Variances [Kalman Variances slides]
    9. pykalman [pykalman slides]
    10. Kalman Example [Kalman Example slides]
    11. Kalman Parameters [Kalman Parameters slides]
    12. Kalman Summary [Kalman Summary slides]
    13. Kalman Links [Kalman Links slides]
    14. Other Filtering [Other Filtering slides]
  7. Cleaning Data [“Cleaning Data” slides]
    1. Validity [Validity slides]
    2. Outliers [Outliers slides]
    3. Finding Outliers [Finding Outliers slides]
    4. Handling Outliers [Handling Outliers slides]
    5. Imputation [Imputation slides]
    6. Noise Filtering [Noise Filtering slides]
    7. Entity Resolution [Entity Resolution slides]
    8. Regular Expressions [Regular Expressions slides]
    9. Python re [Python re slides]
    10. Regex Summary [Regex Summary slides]
  8. Stats Review [“Stats Review” slides]
    1. Context [Context slides]
    2. Types of Data [Types of Data slides]
    3. Population and Samples [Population and Samples slides]
    4. Probability Distributions [Probability Distributions slides]
    5. Central Tendancy [Central Tendancy slides]
    6. Dispersion [Dispersion slides]
    7. Relationships [Relationships slides]
    8. Plotting Data [Plotting Data slides]
    9. Specific Distributions [Specific Distributions slides]
    10. Normal Distribution [Normal Distribution slides]
  9. Inferential Stats
  10. Statistical Tests
  11. Machine Learning
  12. ML: Classification
  13. ML: Other Techniques
  14. Big Data and Spark
  15. How Spark Calculates
  16. Working With Spark
  17. Aside: Dask
  18. Aside: NumPy/Pandas Speed
  19. Communicating
  20. More Data Science

Course home page.

Schedule, Fall 2023

Week Deliverables (*) Lecture Hour Lecture Date First Slide Video Link
1 1 Sep 6 Intro 1-1 (0:48)
2 Exer 1 2 Sep 11 Analyzing Data 2-1 (0:50)
3 Sep 11 Operating on Arrays 2-2 (0:48)
4 Sep 13 exercise time (in CSIL)
3 Exer 2 5 Sep 18 JSON 3-1 (0:48)
6 Sep 18 Kalman Filtering 3-2 (0:48)
7 Sep 20 exercise time (in CSIL)
4 Exer 3 8 Sep 25 Kalman Parameters 4-1 (0:47)
9 Sep 25 Finding Outliers 4-2 (0:49)
10 Sep 27 exercise time (in CSIL)
5 Exer 4 11 Oct 2 Truth and Reconciliation Day
12 Oct 2
13 Oct 4 Relationships
6 Exer 5 14 Oct 10
15 Oct 10
16 Oct 11
7 Exer 6, Quiz 1 17 Oct 16
18 Oct 16
19 Oct 18 Quiz 1
8 Exer 7 20 Oct 23
21 Oct 23
22 Oct 25
9 Exer 8 23 Oct 30
24 Oct 30
25 Nov 1
10 Exer 9 26 Nov 6
27 Nov 6
28 Nov 8
11 Exer 10, Quiz 2 29 Nov 13 Remembrance Day
30 Nov 13
31 Nov 15 Quiz 2
12 Exer 11 32 Nov 20
33 Nov 20
34 Nov 22
13 Exer 12 35 Nov 27
36 Nov 27
37 Nov 29
14 Project, Final Quiz 38 Dec 4
39 Dec 4

* Check CourSys for the actual due dates and times.

Quiz instruction slide.