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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.
- Chapter 8 Annotated Slides now available under Week 11.
- Final Exam Information Sheet and practice materials now available under Final Exam.
- Chapter 9 Guided Notes and Solutions now available under Week 12.
- Chapter 8 Live Annotations now available under Week 11.
- Chapter 16 Annotated Slides now available under Week 10.
- Assignment 5 now available under Assignments.
- Chapter 16 Annotated Notebook available under Week 10.
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 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
Midterm Solutions
Old Midterm
Practice
Final Exam
Final Exam Materials
Information sheet and practice materials.
Final Exam
Information Sheet
Practice
Weekly Materials
Lecture Materials by Week
Click a week to view blank slides, guided notes, annotated slides, and supplementary resources.
Guided notes built with the guidednotes package by Kelvin Chan.
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
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 4: Linear Regression (Chapter 5) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 5: Contingency Tables and Risk (Chapter 6) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
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) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 8: Normal Distribution (Chapter 3) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 9: Sampling Distributions (Chapter 15) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 10: Confidence Intervals (Chapter 16) Available
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 11: Survey Sampling (Chapter 8) Updated
Blank Slides
Guided Notes
Annotated Slides
Supplementary Materials
Week 12: Experimental Design (Chapter 9) Available
Guided Notes
Solutions
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.
Chapter 13
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 13.19 through 13.53.
Chapter 3
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 3.15 through 3.49, excluding 3.25.
Chapter 15
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 15.17 through 15.41.
Chapter 16
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 16.11 through 16.29.
Chapter 8
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 8.17 through 8.51.
Chapter 9
Complete the odd-numbered problems from 9.21 through 9.51.