Schedule

The content will likely evolve a lot. Feel free to make requests! This class is really about open-ended projects, so any technical skills I teach will be for the purpose of helping you do your projects. Depending on the direction the projects take, what is useful may change.

Sep 9 (Wed!) -- optional

• City of Madison Trivia
• Brier Scores

Sep 14

• Logistics
• Project Brainstorming
• What makes a good plot?
• How to present a plot
• notes
• example formats

Sep 21

• report format (continue from last time)

Sep 28

• PDF parsing
• notes
• notebook

Oct 5

• CDFs (Cumulative Distrution Function) Plots
• Box Plots
• notes
• notebook

Oct 12

• Geo-coding APIs
• notes
• notebook

Oct 19

• making sharp images
• scratch work from class examples

Oct 26

• Mid-semester presentations?

Nov 2

• decompositions
• notebook (ipynb)
• notebook (pdf)

Nov 9

• pytorch
• notebook (ipynb)

Nov 16

• sankey graphs

Nov 23

• map projections

Nov 30

• Maps
• shapely?
• Examples: Trails of Wind, Friends, Rivers

Dec 7-10

• Final Presentations