Data science for studying language & the mind
Fall 2025
Announcements
No class on 12/4, instead there will be extra office hours. We will be in 3401 Walnut rooms 324C and 325C.
Final exam: Friday, December 12, 2025: 3:00pm to 5:00pm in NBS AUD
All coding demos can be found here. Homeworks are now shown the week they are released (due the following Monday).
| Week | Begins | Topic | Materials | Lab (Thu/Fri) | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 26 | R Basics | slides, demo, notes | No lab! | |
| 2 | Sep 4 | Data visualization | slides, demo, notes | Lab 1 | Pset 1 |
| 3 | Sep 9 | Data wrangling | slides, demo, notes | Lab 2 | Pset 2 |
| 4 | Sep 16 | Sampling distribution | slides, demo, notes | Lab 3 | Pset 3 |
| 5 | Sep 23 | Hypothesis testing |
slides, demo, notes | Lab 4 | Pset 4 |
| 6 | Sep 30 | Midterm 1 review (Tue) No class/lab, Yom Kippur |
study guide, practice exams | No lab! | |
| 7 | Oct 7 | Midterm 1 (Tue) Fall break, no class/lab |
No lab! | ||
| 8 | Oct 14 | Model specification | slides, demo, notes | Lab 5 | Pset 5 |
| 9 | Oct 21 | Model fitting | slides, demo, notes | Lab 6 | Pset 6 |
| 10 | Oct 28 | Model evaluation | slides, demo, notes | Lab 7 | Pset 7 |
| 11 | Nov 4 | Katie conference, no class/lab | |||
| 12 | Nov 11 | Classification Multilevel Models |
slides, slides2 demo | Lab 8 | Pset 8 |
| 13 | Nov 18 | Midterm 2 review (Tue) Midterm 2 (Thu) |
study guide, practice exams | ||
| 14 | Nov 25 | Thanksgiving break, no class/lab | |||
| 15 | Last week! | ||||
| Dec 2 | Data Science lunch (optional) | 12pm University Club | |||
| Dec 4 | Extra office hours! | No lab! | |||
| 16 | Last week of class, no class/lab | ||||
| 17 | Dec 12 | Final exam (optional) 3-5pm NBS AUD |