Project

The schedule is as follows:

Day 0 (today): setup

Day 1: An end-to-end example getting you from a dataset found online to several plots of campaign contributions.

Day 2: Lots of visualization examples, and practice going from data to chart.

Day 3: Statistics basics, including t-tests, linear regression, and statistical significance. We'll use campaign finance and per-county health rankings.

Day 4: Text processing on a large text corpus (the Enron email dataset) using tf-idf and cosine similarity.

Day 5: Scaling up to process large datasets using Hadoop/MapReduce on a larger copy of the Enron dataset.

Day 6: You tell us! Get into groups or work on your own to analyze a dataset of your choosing, and tell us a story!