Welcome to ES 2!
Quick links: Campuswire — Provide — JupyterLab — Textbook online — Canvas
This is the home page for ES 2-06, taught by Steven Bell and Joel Grodstein.
Schedule and links
All dates/times are US Eastern time. Note that we’ll switch to daylight savings time on March 14.
General due dates, unless otherwise specified:
- Quizzes are due on Fridays at 11:59pm, via the Jupyter notebook.
- Labs are due on Sundays at 11:59pm, via
provide.
Some links are dead at the moment; they will be filled in as the course gets underway.
Week 1 (Feb 1): Simple calculations
Readings / videos
Recitation
Nothing to read this week, just show up!
Lab
Week 2 (Feb 8): Loops, vectors, and plots
Readings / videos
Recitation
Complete these readings and videos before your recitation section, so we can discuss them together.Lab
Thonny
Thonny is a Python “Integrated Development Environment” (IDE) which lets you write and execute Python code on your computer. It has a number of nice features designed to help you learn Python and programming more generally.
You’ll also want to add matplotlib the same way as numpy.
Week 3 (Feb 15): Conditional expressions and functions
No class on Monday (Presidents’ day), Tuesday is a Monday schedule.
Tuesday recitations can either attend at their normal day/time if that works, or pick a different section and let us know (we’ll give you the Zoom link)
Readings / videos
Recitation
Week 4 (Feb 22): Data structures and JSON
Readings
Recitation
Lab
Week 5 (Mar 1): Tabular data and more plotting
Readings
Recitation
Lab
Week 6 (Mar 8): Curve fitting and correlation
Readings / videos
Recitation
Lab
Week 7 (Mar 15): Data analysis part 2 -
Week 8 (Mar 22): Data analysis part 3 - sampling errors
Week 9 (Mar 29): Object-oriented programming
Readings
Week 10 (Apr 5): Confidence intervals, random trials, and P-hacking
Week 11 (Apr 12): More sophisticated visualization
Week 12 (Apr 19): Vaccine simulation
No class on Monday (Patriots’ day), Monday recitations will slip a week.
Week 13 (Apr 26): Introduction to MATLAB
Week 14 (May 3): Wrapping up!
Classes end Wednesday; only Monday recitations will meet this week.