All units will be released at 00:00 UTC on the start date specified below. All assignments are due at 00:00 UTC on the respective due date listed.
| Unit | Start Date | Lecture Topics | Method Covered | Items Due | Due Date |
| 1 | March 9 | Introduction to Analytics, Introduction to R | Basic Data Analysis | Initial Evaluation and Homework Assignment 1 | March 23 |
| 2 | March 16 | Quality of Wine, Moneyball | Linear Regression | Homework Assignment 2 | March 30 |
| 3 | March 23 | Modeling an Expert, The Framingham Heart Study | Logistic Regression | Homework Assignment 3 | April 6 |
| 4 | March 30 | Predicting Supreme Court Decisions, The D2Hawkeye Story | Trees | Homework Assignment 4 | April 13 |
| 5 | April 6 | Turning Tweets into Knowledge, IBM Watson | Text Analytics | Homework Assignment 5 | April 20 |
| 6 | April 13 | Recommendation Systems, Predictive Diagnosis | Clustering | Homework Assignment 6 | April 27 |
| 7 | April 20 | Visualizing the World, The Analytical Policeman | Visualization | Homework Assignment 7 | May 4 |
| 8 | April 27 | Airline Revenue Management, Radiation Therapy | Linear Optimization | Homework Assignment 8 | May 11 |
| 9 | May 4 | Sports Scheduling, eHarmony | Integer Optimization | Final Evaluation and Homework Assignment 9 | May 18 |
| Final Exam | May 11 | None | None | Final Exam | May 25 |