This table lists the tentative topics and due dates for the semester. The major topic areas are set, but the details of individual topics may change as we work our way through the course. The topic lists indicate when a concept or skill is first introduced. However, as we progress through the course, you will be using these concepts and skills repeatedly.
| Week | Topics | Lessons | Due dates (Saturdays) |
| 1 06/04 |
Basic data visualization in MATLAB Introduction to the MATLAB workspace, basic plotting and editing of line graphs, loading files, saving plots, legends, figure captions, annotations, use of color FOCUS QUESTION: How do I get started using MATLAB? |
1 | |
| 2 06/06-06/11 |
Effective use of line graphs, bar charts, and pies Line graphs, pie charts, bar charts, stacked bar charts, sum function, percentage calculations FOCUS QUESTION: How can I data display trends and relationships? |
2, 3 | Last chance at pretest |
| 3 06/13-06/18 |
Combining plots to compare data sets insets, multiple axes, units, bar charts maximum, minimum, mean, median, mode FOCUS QUESTION: How can I combine graphs for effective comparisons? |
4, 5 | Lab 1 |
| 4 06/20-06/25 |
Relationships between variables slope and rate of change, scatter plots, curve-fitting, correlation FOCUS QUESTION: How can I characterize relationships between variables? |
6, 7 | |
| 5 06/27-07/02 |
Review and practice for Exam 1 | Lab 2 | |
| 6 07/04-07/09 |
Exam 1 | ||
| 7 07/11-07/16 |
Vector indexing relational expressions, logical vectors, counting entries, extracting rows and columns FOCUS QUESTION: How can I extract information based on data values? |
8 | Lab 3 |
| 8 07/18-07/23 |
Program control relational expressions, loops, if-else FOCUS QUESTION: How can adapt code for different situations based on data? |
9 | Sleep diary due |
| 9 07/25-07/30 |
Depictions of spread histograms, cumulative probability distributions, box plots, interquartile range, percentiles, standard deviation FOCUS QUESTION: How can I depict the distribution of data values? |
10, 11 | Lab 4 |
| 10 08/1-08/06 |
Depictions of error error bars, standard error of the mean FOCUS QUESTION: How can I depict uncertainty and variability in data? |
12, 13 | Lab 5 |
| 11 08/06-08/08 |
Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals and Review
for Exam (Last Class on the 8th) one sample and two sample t-tests, confidence intervals, tests for normality FOCUS QUESTION: How can I know whether an experimental group is significantly different from the control group? |
14, 15 |