Teaching Data Intuition:
A book
by Bin Yu and Rebecca Barter
One
Two
Three
Four
The 5 stages of a Data Science project
Data cleaning and exploration
Prediction
Validation and stability analysis
Communication of results
Five
Question formulation and data collection
The 5 stages of a Data Science project
Focus on intuition rather than math...
Every example is a real world example
Opinions on autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh:
Global organ donation trends:
Activity recognition from smartphone gyroscope/accelerometer data:
Each chapter is accompanied by a case-
study project (Jupyter notebook) for the reader to complete
Exploring the environment of redwood trees
Classifying ice vs cloud in satellite images
Predicting the brain's response to images using fMRI
Timeline
Year 1: notes from Bin Yu's STAT 215A class
Year 2: start turning notes into LaTeX book
Year 3: start entire book from scratch & start using bookdown
Year 4: book is starting to resemble something readable
Year 5 (this year!): draft to be completed & talking with publishers
Coming soon...
Teaching Data Intuition: A Book
By Rebecca Barter
