Data science for studying language & the mind
Fall 2025
Announcements
- Lab 2 posted
- Pset 2 posted
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 | Lab 3 | Pset 3 | |
| 5 | Sep 23 | Hypothesis testing |
Lab 4 | Pset 4 | |
| 6 | Sep 30 | Midterm 1 review (Tue) Midterm 1 (Thu) |
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| 7 | Oct 7 | Make-up date Midterm 1 Fall break, no class/lab |
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| 8 | Oct 14 | Model specification | Lab 5 | Pset 5 | |
| 9 | Oct 21 | Model fitting | Lab 6 | Pset 6 | |
| 10 | Oct 28 | Model evaluation | Lab 7 | Pset 7 | |
| 11 | Nov 4 | Katie conference, no class/lab | |||
| 12 | Nov 11 | Feature engineering (??) | Lab 8 | Pset 8 | |
| 13 | Nov 18 | Miterm 2 review (Tue) Midterm 2 (Thu) |
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| 14 | Nov 25 | Thanksgiving break, no class/lab | |||
| 15 | Careers in datasci lunch! | ||||
| Dec 2 | Brittany’s Labs (402/403) | 12pm University Club | |||
| Dec 4 | Mingyang’s Labs (405/406) | 12pm University Club | Lab 9 | ||
| 16 | Dec 9 | Last week of class, no class/lab | |||
| 17 | TBD | Final exam (optional) |