Math 280: Mathematics for Data Science
Josh Laison

Syllabus
Course Canvas site
Course WebWork site

Course calendar:
Monday Wednesday Friday
Week 1 Jan 12: First day of class!
Vectors and vector algebra
Jan 14: Dot products, projections, lines and planes in 2D and 3D
Jan 16: Span and linear independence
WebWork 1 due.
Week 2 Jan 19: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, no class today. Jan 21: Introduction to Python
Conceptual homework 1 due.
Jan 23: Introduction to Principal Component Analysis
Webwork 2 due.
Week 3 Jan 26: Matrices and matrix algebra. Jan 28: Quiz 1 on vectors, in class today. Jan 30: Webwork 3 due.
Week 4 Feb 2: Matrix inverses
Applied homework 1 due.
Feb 4: Determinants Feb 6: Eigenvalues
Conceptual homework 2 due.
Week 5 Feb 9: Eigenvalues continued
Webwork 4 due.
Feb 11: Introduction to Markov chains Feb 13: Quiz 2 on matrix algebra, matrix inverses, and determinants, in class today.