Scientific Data Analysis, Data Science, and Machine Learning in Python

An independent study with two parts:

Part 1: Consolidate and advance our understanding of mainstream and cutting edge scientific data analysis techniques using Chapters 1-8 of Pasha, Astronomical Python

Part 2: Survey data science techniques up to and including neural net and deep learning implementations (which are the relevant preparation for a subsequent study of natural-language processing and LLMs) using Chapters 1-11, 13-15, and 18-19 Grus, Data Science from Scratch, 2nd Ed.

Term 6 of Academic Year 2024-2025, Deep Springs College

Mentor: Prof. Brian Hill

Student: Hexi Jin (DS 23)

Syllabus

Materials

Required

Optional

Actual Daily Schedules (Kept Retrospectively)

Looking Beyond

Notes (mostly code samples)