Data
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Spring 2020
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March 31

Getting going

Hi folks.

I hope that you're all doing as well as can be expected given the pandemic and all the recent stress.

At this point I am planning on holding a zoom session tomorrow at our regular time (1:30pm EDT Tue March 31) and will send out an email with a link.

I've also set up a Question and Answer page here on our website, with a link over on the left. We'll see if that's a useful way to connect with each other.

The faculty is discussing Tuesday morning about whether or not to turn classes to pass/fail (with grades as opt-in for those who want them).

What's next

I think we should continue with linear regression - that's chapters 14, 8, and 15, and perhaps but probably not 16 in the text.

You should start reading and looking at chapter 14 if you haven't already.

As we have already seen, the trick with some sources will be in trying to figure out what's what without getting bogged down too much with either (a) lots of math or (b) black box library calls.

I will have an assignment for you soon with some practice.

Meanwhile, I have started an example notebook which I'll walk through with you in our zoom meeting, or that you can look at and ask about.

The homework may well ask you to do some work along those lines.

Questions and comments ?

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