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DS 1000B
Data Science Concepts
Weekly lecture materials, assignments, and exam preparation resources for Winter 2026.
This Week
What's New
A quick summary of recent changes to this page.
- Week 7 blank slides now include Chapter 13 Slides (PDF).
- Week 6 annotated slides now include Chapter 12 Review Complete (Annotated PDF).
- Week 6 blank slides now include Chapter 12 overview/bridge lecture.
- Week 6 supplementary materials now include the Random Variable mindmap animation.
- Assignment 4 is now available.
- Midterm materials updated: Midterm information sheet.
Course Materials
Core Course Documents
Syllabus and central course references.
Syllabus
Assignments
Assignments and Datasets
Each assignment expands to show released files and corresponding datasets.
Assignments
Assignment 1 Available
Assignment 2 Available
Datasets
Assignment 3 Available
Assignment 4 Available
Assignment 5 Coming soon
Assignment files and datasets will be posted when available.
Midterm
Midterm Materials
Information sheet, prior exam, and practice sets.
Midterm
Midterm date and time: March 1, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM. Location: See Information Sheet for locations.
Information Sheet
Old Midterm
Practice
Weekly Materials
Lecture Materials by Week
Click a week to view blank slides, guided notes, annotated slides, and supplementary resources.
Week 1: Picturing Distributions with Graphs (Chapter 1) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 2: Describing Distributions with Numbers (Chapter 2) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 3: Scatterplots and Correlation (Chapter 4) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Guided notes will be posted when available.
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 4: Linear Regression (Chapter 5) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Guided notes will be posted when available.
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 5: Contingency Tables and Risk (Chapter 6) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Guided notes will be posted when available.
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 6: Formal Introduction to Probability (Chapter 12) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 7: Conditional Probability (Chapter 13) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 8: Normal Distribution (Chapter 3) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 9: Sampling Distributions (Chapter 15) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 10: Confidence Intervals (Chapter 16) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 11: Survey Sampling (Chapter 8) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 12: Experimental Design (Chapter 9) Planned
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Textbook Practice
Practice Problem Sets
Recommended odd-numbered problems by chapter.
Textbook Practice Problems
Use the following chapter practice recommendations.
Chapter 1
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 1.13 through 1.29.
Chapter 2
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 2.15 through 2.53, excluding 2.35.
Note: You do not need to follow the “state, plan, solve, conclude” paradigm used by the authors.
Chapter 4
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 4.15 through 4.49, excluding 4.43.
Chapter 5
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 5.31 through 5.65, excluding 5.55, 5.57, and 5.59.
Chapter 6
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 6.09 through 6.33.
Chapter 12
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 12.25 through 12.55.