Preface
Contents
Preface¶
Note
The notes are a joint effort of the instructor and the students in STAT 5255, Spring 2022, through experimental learning.
These notes are built using Jupyter Book 2.0.
I Understand¶
Dr. Nicholas Eubank taught data science at Duke with the following style:
Data science is an applied discipline, and so this will be an intensely applied class with lots of hands-on exercises.
To make it possible for us to work through problems together as they arise, we will dedicate most of our class time to completing these exercises in small groups. That means that students will be required to read instructional material before every class so they will be ready to do these exercises. This is what is referred to as ``flipping the classroom.”
In order to make this class organization work, it will be critically important that students do their assigned readings before every class, and as discussed below, this will be reflected in how grades are assigned in this class. Students who do not complete their assigned readings and tutorials before each class should not expect to receive good grades, regardless of performance on project assignments.
Here at UConn, instead of a ‘flipped’ class, we co-develop the classnotes, take turns to present topics of interest, and learn from one another.
The classnotes from Fall 2021 are here: https://github.com/jun-yan/ids