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 | Jun-6 | Introduction to Analytics, Introduction to R | Basic Data Analysis | Initial Evaluation and Homework Assignment 1 | Jun-20 |
2 | Jun-13 | Quality of Wine, Moneyball | Linear Regression | Homework Assignment 2 | Jun-27 |
3 | Jun-20 | Modeling an Expert, The Framingham Heart Study | Logistic Regression | Homework Assignment 3 | Jul-4 |
4 | Jun-27 | Predicting Supreme Court Decisions, The D2Hawkeye Story | Trees | Homework Assignment 4 | Jul-11 |
5 | Jul-4 | Turning Tweets into Knowledge, IBM Watson | Text Analytics | Homework Assignment 5 | Jul-18 |
6 | Jul-11 | Recommendation Systems, Predictive Diagnosis | Clustering | Homework Assignment 6 | Jul-25 |
7 | Jul-18 | Visualizing the World, The Analytical Policeman | Visualization | Homework Assignment 7 | Aug-1 |
8 | Jul-25 | Airline Revenue Management, Radiation Therapy | Linear Optimization | Homework Assignment 8 | Aug-8 |
9 | Aug-1 | Sports Scheduling, eHarmony | Integer Optimization | Final Evaluation and Homework Assignment 9 | Aug-15 |
Final Exam | Aug-15 | None | None | Final Exam | Aug-22 |