8. Data science tools

Week 8 (October 13)
Due: 2.4 Pokémon lab

Assigned: 2.6 Argument project

Introduction to Pandas and Jupyter notebooks. Argument Project proposal (Due October 10/20).

Week 8

How to approach the labs [0:00]
- Consider your interest and difficulty
- Experience the different areas of CS, without getting bogged down by being 100%
Weather lab [2:30]
- Introduces 3 big ideas! What did you think of them?
Pokemon Lab [6:31]
- Jupyter Notebooks to tell embed text and Python
Argument Project [8:25]
- Take a look at the teacher's guide
- Start thinking about which data set you want to analyze:
  - You could use your own generated data, using extraction tools we have developed. For example, you could work with your Google Maps location data, your Netflix or Spotify media consumption data, or records of your emails or text messages. (If this interests you, please reach out :)
  - You could use an external data set of your choice. I can help you find and evaluate external data sets.
  - You could use a research data set you are going to analyze anyway. (e.g. doctoral students might want to work on data they are already studying; teachers might want to study data from their classrooms.) If data privacy is a concern, we can work out an arrangement where the raw data is never shared beyond your control.
Upcoming Recap [11:00]