I’m teaching Introduction to Data Science for the second year. We just started last week, and here are some of the significant differences between this year and last year: (1) Added another professor: I am team teaching this year with Dr. Kayur Patel who is a computer scientist at Google. Crudely speaking we can think […]
This is my last blog post for Statistics 4242, Introduction to Data Science at Columbia University. All final projects have been turned in; grades have been given; the semester is over. I reserve the right to start blogging again at a later date. Dear Students, From the beginning, this course viewed Data Science simultaneously in […]
Dear Students, There is a new Kaggle Visualization Competition in our honor! I encourage you all to enter it! I received this email from Will Cukierski from Kaggle. This email was sent to me and Chris Mulligan. (See the p.s. for the Legend of Chris Mulligan.) Yours, Rachel Chris and Rachel, Thanks to your blog […]
Congratulations to Maura Fitzgerald for taking first place in our in-class Kaggle competition! First a couple comments, and then the final results are below. Were these Kaggle-competitive scores? The top scores were in the ballpark of the winning scores in the external version of this competition. The students in the class were given slightly different […]
Dear Students, I’ll be giving a talk at Strata in February about this course and our experiences together: http://strataconf.com/strata2013/public/schedule/detail/27529 I’m bringing it up now, even though it’s more than two months off, because I plan to stop blogging about the class when the semester is finished. Here’s the abstract: Data Science is an emerging field […]
The following is from Chris Wiggins, a professor in the department of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at Columbia. Chris’s name has come up multiple times throughout the semester including the very first day: What is Data Science? and the last day during the student presentations. Dear Rachel: I’m emailing to ask your help getting […]
Each week Cathy O’Neil blogs about the class. Cross-posted from mathbabe.org. Thank you Cathy for doing such a wonderful job this semester capturing the course in this way, and also for being a respected voice in the classroom, a question-asker and role model for the students. Here’s our class photo, and Cathy’s blog post follows. Cathy’s post captures the presentation done by a subset of students, which represented a collaboration of many/most students in this course, as part of their work for a think piece. More on this to come at a later date. It also captures my synthesis of the semester.
In the final week of Rachel Schutt’s Columbia Data Science course, we heard from two groups of students as well as from Rachel herself. […]
