gnarayan / ast596_2020_spring

Course materials for Fundamentals of Data Science

ASTR 596: Fundamentals of Data Science

Gautham Narayan, UIUC

TR, 1400-1520

Course materials for Fundamentals of Data Science

• Fork this repo

• The topics of each week's lectures are described in the syllabus PDF

• Lectures are in directories named XY/ where XY/ is the number of the week

• Homework assignments are similarly in the homework/ directory - there are instructions in there for submitting your work

• Solutions to homework assignments will be posted over the weekend after the Thursday they were due

• Various help cheat sheets are included in help/.

• You should also review in-class notebooks and homework solutions to make sure you understand what is happening

• The lecture notebooks have in-class exercises for you to work on

If you are working on a fork of the repo, and pull request to commit homework solutions, the problem is that git will pick up any other changes that you comitted, including to the in-class exercises. The solution is to work on your homework in the master branch of your forked repo, but keep a separate branch of the repo for in-class exercises. I'd name the branch something like your FirstName_LastName as with your homework. See the update.sh script for keeping your master branch up-to-date. The procedure is similar for any other branch - just git checkout <BranchName> first.

ast596_2020_spring's Issues

Can't open Lecture 02 notebook

Both myself and a friend with a fresh clone can't open week 02 lecture materials with error:

"Unreadable Notebook: C:\Users\qwsaz\Spring 2020\ast596_2020_Spring\lecture\02\week02.ipynb NotJSONError('Notebook does not appear to be JSON: '{\n "cells": [\n {\n "cell_type": "c...',)"

Other notebooks open fine

OS: Windows 10