Course Materials (In Progress)

The design of this course

This course requires you to take an active role in your learning. Skills cannot be learned by passively listening to a lecture. You have to get your hands dirty with the data.
The resources for learning analytics are bountiful and FREE! In this spirit, and to relieve some of your (parents’) financial burdens, all the course materials are free.
1. This does not mean you don’t need to use the materials. Free != not valuable.
2. I will record videos to go over all the technical aspects of the course so you can review/follow along outside class. You must view these before synchronous lectures to familiarize yourself with the material before class. You must view these after synchronous lectures to work out any wrinkles.
I am here to help you learn. If you need more individual help, please set up a Zoom meeting with me.

Course Notes (Updated 12/3/2020)

Assignment 1 – Make your CV in Colab
Assignment 2 – Write some functions
Assignment 3 – Working with data – Yelp Reviews
Assignment 4 – Visualizing data – Rent the Runway and Orange Telecom
Assignment 5 – Hypothesis testing – Facebook Ads and Starbucks Promos
Assignment 6 – Regression 1: Foot traffic and Avocado pricing
Assignment 7 – Avocado pricing elasticities + Starbucks promo heterogeneous effectiveness
Assignment 8 – Logit: predicting fit on Rent the Runway + churn at Orange Telecom
Assignment 9 – Segmentation: Behavioral segmentation on e-Retailer
Assignment 10 – Product recommendation (Collaborative Filtering)
Assignment 11 – Text Analysis with Yelp Reviews