INTRODUCTION TO
DATA SCIENCE
JOHN P DICKERSON
Lecture #12 – 10/3/2019
CMSC320
Tuesdays & Thursdays
5:00pm – 6:15pm

FINAL TUTORIAL
In lieu of a final exam, you’ll create a mini-tutorial that:
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Identifies a raw data source
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Processes and stores that data
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Performs exploratory data analysis & visualization
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Derives insight(s) using statistics and ML
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Communicates those insights as actionable text
Individual or group project – 25% of final grade!
Will be
hosted publicly
online (GitHub Pages) and will
strengthen your portfolio
.
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FINAL TUTORIAL
Deliverable: URL of your own GitHub Pages site hosting an
.ipynb/.html export of your final tutorial
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– make a GitHub account, too!
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The project itself:
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~1500+ words of Markdown prose
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~150+ lines of Python
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Should be viewable as a
static webpage
– that is, if I (or
anyone else) opens the link up, everything should render and I

