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 | April 12 | Introduction to Analytics, Introduction to R | Basic Data Analysis | Initial Evaluation and Homework Assignment 1 | April 26 |
| 2 | April 19 | Quality of Wine, Moneyball | Linear Regression | Homework Assignment 2 | May 03 |
| 3 | April 26 | Modeling an Expert, The Framingham Heart Study | Logistic Regression | Homework Assignment 3 | May 10 |
| 4 | May 03 | Predicting Supreme Court Decisions, The D2Hawkeye Story | Trees | Homework Assignment 4 | May 17 |
| 5 | May 10 | Turning Tweets into Knowledge, IBM Watson | Text Analytics | Homework Assignment 5 | May 24 |
| 6 | May 17 | Recommendation Systems, Predictive Diagnosis | Clustering | Homework Assignment 6 | May 31 |
| Competition | May 24 | None | None | Kaggle Competition | June 14 |
| 7 | May 24 | Visualizing the World, The Analytical Policeman | Visualization | Homework Assignment 7 | June 7 |
| 8 | June 14 | Airline Revenue Management, Radiation Therapy | Linear Optimization | Homework Assignment 8 | June 28 |
| 9 | June 14 | Sports Scheduling, eHarmony | Integer Optimization | Final Evaluation and Homework Assignment 9 | June 28 |
| Final Exam | June 28 | None | None | Final Exam | July 05 |