Week 1 : Sept 28 - Oct 4

Class 2 (Tuesday, September 29)

  1. Student presentations of pandas.Series and pandas.DataFrames exercises.
  2. Created a directory called data within the eds220-in-class repository (in workbench-1) and added it to .gitignore via GitHub.
  3. Download the CSV file wetlands_seasonal_bird_diversity.csv from our shared drive and uploaded it to the data/ folder.
  4. Covered the pandas subsetting notes up to selecting a single column. We started from a pre-filled notebook available here.
Preparation for next class (Thursday, October 1)
  1. In your EDS-220/eds220-in-class directory, create a new Python notebook called week1-basic-plotting.ipynb.
  2. Read the notes on basic plotting and follow along with the code in the week1-basic-plotting.ipynb notebook.
  3. Solve the check-in exercises in the week1-basic-plotting.ipynb. We’ll present these during class.
  4. Make a summary of the lesson. What are the most important concepts or ideas?


Class 3 (Thursday, October 1)

  1. Finished pandas subsetting notes.
  2. Student presentations of basic plotting exercises.
Preparation for next class (Tuesday, October 6)

Task 1

  1. In your EDS-220/eds220-in-class directory, create a new Python notebook called week2-groupby.ipynb.
  2. Read the notes on grouping and follow along with the code week2-groupby.ipynb notebook.
  3. Summarize the lesson and solve the check-in exercises. We’ll present them during class.

Task 2

  1. In your EDS-220/eds220-in-class directory, create a new Python notebook called week2-updating-dataframes.ipynb.
  2. Read the notes on updating dataframes up to the end of the “Removing columns” section and follow along with the code in the week2-updating-dataframes.ipynb notebook.
  3. We will cover the “Updating values” section during class. The class will start assuming you have all the data loaded.
Assignment 1 available this Friday

Assignment 1 will be available by the end of tomorrow, Friday, October 2 and will be due by 11:59 pm on Saturday, October 10.


Discussion section (Friday, October 2)

Preparation for discussion section

  • Check who is your assigned team for the EDS 220 discussion sections.

  • Complete steps 1, 2, and 3 of the first discussion section to load and explore the data before the discussion section.

  • You’ll be working on exercises 4-7 during section, so it is important that you have the data ready to go tomorrow.

  • Check-in with your discussion section teams via Slack to make sure you’re all ready to go on Friday! 🙌