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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 13 blank slides have been updated — apologies for the previous incorrect version.
- Annotated Chapter 13 slides are now available.
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.