These decks are draft materials for CS 418: Intro to Data Science at UIC. Content, order, examples, and formatting may change while the course is being built for Fall 2026. Week 0 holds a demo slide deck for experimenting with styles and setup.
Slide Decks
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Week 1 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Course introduction
- Statistics review
- Data science lifecycle
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Week 2 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Python foundations
- Dataframes and Polars
- Obtaining data
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Week 3 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Wrangling data
- Filtering data
- Data formats
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Week 4 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Exploratory analysis
- Descriptive statistics
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Week 5 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
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Week 6 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
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Week 7 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Hypothesis testing
- Estimation and sampling
- Randomness
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Week 8 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Linear regression
- Intro to classification
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Week 9 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Decision trees
- Support vector machines
- Kernels
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Week 10 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Clustering
- Principal component analysis
- Model evaluation
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Week 11 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Recommendation systems
- A/B testing
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Week 12 Slide Deck: HTML | PDF
- Network analysis
- Graphs and relationships
- Network measures