Week 6 — Special Topics & Project

June 22 – 26, 2026

The last week. Some special topics (clustering, decision trees), the second oral checkpoint, and project wrap-up. Final project report due Friday night.

Daily plan

Date Topic Files
Mon Jun 22 Quiz 4 (rescheduled) · clustering & decision trees quiz, slides
Tue Jun 23 Using R with LLMs slides
Wed Jun 24 Case study · oral check-in #1 makeups slides
Thu Jun 25 Project work day · oral check-in #2 (final walkthrough) —
Fri Jun 26 short project presentations · wrap-up —

Readings due this week

  • Before Mon: Data Computing Ch 18 (§18.2): unsupervised learning, clustering
  • Before Tue: Data Computing Ch 18 (§18.3): trees from data
  • Before Wed: Article from Yale SOM for benzoyl peroxide case study

Assignments due this week

  • Quiz 4: Monday Jun 22 in class
  • Project Checkpoint 2: due Wed Jun 24, 11:59 p.m.
  • Project Oral Check-in #2: Thursday Jun 25 in class
  • Final project report + GitHub repo link: due Friday Jun 26, 11:59 p.m.