Note: This schedule is only a rough plan for the course. We will generally cover the topics in the order listed, but not always in the given amount of time.
I will add material as the course progresses and correct dates if we get too far ahead or behind.| Week | Dates | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Comments and Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/8-1/12 | Introduction | Evaluation of a Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool for Automating Data Science | Assignment 1 | Classes start Wednesday, Jan. 10th. About the course, research and literature. Graduate school and beyond. Literature searches - using Google scholar. How to read a research paper. slides |
| 2 | 1/15-1/19 | Research papers | No class Monday, Jan. 15th. Papers, white papers, grants, etc. The review processes. Original ideas, citations. program1.py | ||
| 3 | 1/22-1/26 | Outline | Assignment 2 | Readers and reviewers, outlines, outline program2.py, program3.py | |
| 4 | 1/29-2/2 | Titles and Abstract | Assignment 3 | What is the main point? | |
| 5 | 2/5-2/9 | Latex | Assignment 4 | What is Latex? Editors. General structure, citations.
avg.py | |
| 6 | 2/12-2/16 | More Latex | Assignment 5 | Tables and figures. stddev.py, example2.tex, samplebib.bib, printAtable.py, | |
| 7 | 2/19-2/23 | Latex | Assignment 6 | More Latex, tables and figures. adventure.py adventure2.py | |
| 8 | 2/26-3/2 | Hypothesis and Experiments | Assignment 7 | Rigorous hypotheses, designing experiments. pet1.py | |
| 9 | 3/5-3/9 | Results | Telling the user. petB.py | ||
| 10 | 3/12-3/16 | Spring Break | |||
| 11 | 3/19-3/23 | General writing | Assignment 8 | Writting, structure, flow, topic sentences. Slides | |
| 12 | 3/26-3/30 | Conclusions | Assignment 9 |
EC1.py Tell them what you told them | |
| 13 | 4/2-4/6 | Statistics | Assignment 10 |
EC2.py Means, standard deviation, t-tests, confidence. | |
| 14 | 4/9-4/13 | Presenting results | 4D Password Mechanism | Assignment 11 |
Graphs, tables, telling the reader what to "see" BoxCar2d EC3.py |
| 15 | 4/16-4/20 | Research Presentations | Assignment 12 | Outline, audience, time, practice. | |
| 16 | 4/23-4/27 | Student Presentations | Assignment 13 |
April 23rd:
Madhumitha,
Caleb April 24th: Syed , Adhar April 25th: Siva, Helen April 27th: Abhinav, Rohit | |
| 17 | 4/30-5/4 | Wrap-up | |||
| 18 | 5/7-5/11 | Final Exam Week | No final Exam |