All units will be released at 00:00 UTC on the start date specified below. All assignments are due at 23:59 UTC on the respective due date listed.
| Unit | Start Date | Lecture Topics | Method Covered | Items Due | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 2 | Introduction to Analytics, Introduction to R | Basic Data Analysis | Initial Evaluation and Homework Assignment 1 | June 15 |
| 2 | June 9 | Quality of Wine, Moneyball | Linear Regression | Homework Assignment 2 | June 22 |
| 3 | June 16 | Modeling an Expert, The Framingham Heart Study | Logistic Regression | Homework Assignment 3 | June 29 |
| 4 | June 23 | Predicting Supreme Court Decisions, The D2Hawkeye Story | Trees | Homework Assignment 4 | July 6 |
| 5 | June 30 | Turning Tweets into Knowledge, IBM Watson | Text Analytics | Homework Assignment 5 | July 13 |
| 6 | July 7 | Recommendation Systems, Predictive Diagnosis | Clustering | Homework Assignment 6 | July 20 |
| Competition | July 14 | None | None | Kaggle Competition | August 3 |
| 7 | July 14 | Visualizing the World, The Analytical Policeman | Visualization | Homework Assignment 7 | July 27 |
| 8 | August 4 | Airline Revenue Management, Radiation Therapy | Linear Optimization | Homework Assignment 8 | August 17 |
| 9 | August 4 | Sports Scheduling, eHarmony | Integer Optimization | Final Evaluation and Homework Assignment 9 | August 17 |
| Final Exam | August 18 | None | None | Final Exam | August 24 |