Applied Data Science @ Columbia



Fall 2016 Project3 Summary
Nov 09, 2016 ADS Fall 2016 Project 3: Labradoodle or Fried Chicken? Team 1: GitHub link Main ideas: Project Description Team 2: GitHub link Main ideas: Project Description Team 3: GitHub link Main ideas: Project Description Team 4: GitHub link Main ideas: Project Description Team 5: GitHub link Main ideas: Project Description Team...
Fall 2016 Project1 Summary
Nov 09, 2016 ADS Fall 2016 Project 1: American Community Surveys (2013 and 2014) Team 1: The Ultimate Job Matching Main ideas: Project Description Team 2: Analysis of American Community Surveys Main ideas: Project Description Team 3: Women in the Work Force Main ideas: Project Description Team 4: Divorce rate and stories behind...
Fal L2016 Project2 Summary
Nov 09, 2016 ADS Fall 2016 Project 2: Open Data NYC - an RShiny app development project Team 1: Oil Consumption Analysis Main ideas: Project Description Team 2: Inspection of Restaurants in NYC Main ideas: Project Description Team 3: Parking Aide Main ideas: Project Description Team 4: Parkman Go Main ideas: Project Description...
Spring 2016 Project2-OpenDataNYC Summary
Sep 21, 2016 Project 2 in Spring 2016 invites students to think like a product design team to leverage interesting public data sets found from NYC open data portal. Using three weeks, the students went through the development cycle of design, planning, implementation and analysis. The presentations were given in the form of...
ADS Alum Yuhan Sun making Shiny app at UNICEF
Sep 05, 2016 An Spring 2016 alum from our Applied Data Science course, Yuhan Sun (MA in Statistics, Columbia University), spent the past summer as a data scientist at UNICEF. She extended a Shiny app at UNICEF that provides a web-based application for generating child mortality estimates. These estimates are computed from empirical...
Spring 2016 Project1-ACS Summary
Aug 31, 2016 Project 1 is about exploratory data analysis on 2013 American community survey. Students were invited to study Kaggle scripts (a.k.a, kernels) on this dataset and come up with their collaborative RMarkdown report. This summary was prepared by Chengliang Tang.
Project-ACS team results
Feb 03, 2016 Here are the team repositories for Project 1 on American Community Survey for Spring 2016.
Project American Community Survey
Jan 29, 2016 For the very first project of this course, we looked at the American Community Survey.
Where shall I start
Jan 29, 2016 I had a conversation with a student who has participated in two hackathons recently. I ask her whick part of the hackathons she found the hardest. Without surprise, she said the hardest part is to figure where to start with the data set. She said she thinks the reason why...
Learning by doing
Jan 28, 2016 Spring 2016, I will be teaching Applied Data Science (W4249), a project-based learning (PBL) course. I came up with the idea for this course without being aware of this line of discussion in education innovation.
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