Weekly Course Schedule – Fall 2023

IS430 B-Section - Foundations of Information Processing

Meets Thursday Evening Online

Week 12 (November 6 – November 12)



Thursday, November 9   (5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M., Zoom)
Class Session 12
Topics
  • Review solutions to prior week's coding assignments
  • Numpy and Pandas
Required Readings
  • McKinney 3e - Chapter 4 (NumPy Basics: Arrays and Vectorized Computation)
  • McKinney 3e - Chapter 5 (Getting Started with pandas)
  • McKinney 3e - Chapter 6 - 6.1 (Reading and Writing Data in Text Format)
  • McKinney 3e - Chapter 7 - 7.1 (Handling Missing Data), 7.2 (Data Transformation)
Required Recordings
Other Resources


Sunday, November 12   (11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M., Zoom)
Optional Session
Lab Session
On Sunday mornings from 11:00 AM till 12:00 PM, I will be holding an optional Lab Session using Zoom. Please drop by to ask a question, to discuss solutions to previous assignments, to get help with the current assignment, to discuss the final project, or just to say hello. Please use a headset while participating.


Sunday, November 12, @  11:55 P.M.
Weekly Assignments Deadline
Coding Assignments Due
  • NumPy and Pandas Coding Assignment
    Description: All of the materials that you will need to complete this assignment are contained in the Starter Files zip file below. It includes 1 Jupyter notebook and data subdirectory containing 3 data files. Instructions on how to do the assignment and how to submit your work are included as part of the Jupyter notebook. Please follow those instructions.
    Submit to: NumPy and Pandas Coding Assignment