COURSE NOTES FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE UPDATED APRIL 2026

Foundations of Data Science

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Part I

Data Science Fundamentals

Section 1.1

Introduction to Data Science

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Section 1.2

Data Fundamentals: Attributes & Objects

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Types of Data

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Data Quality

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Aggregation

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Sampling

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Dimensionality Reduction

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Section 1.8

Discretization & Binarization

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Attribute Transformation

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Section 1.10

Similarity & Dissimilarity

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Distance Metrics

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Similarity Metrics

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Section 1.13

Visualization (Jupyter Notebook)

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Part II

Hypothesis Testing

Section 2.1

Continuous Random Variables

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Central Limit Theorem

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Confidence Intervals

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t-Distribution

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Section 2.5

Hypothesis Testing (One Sample)

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Section 2.6

Hypothesis Testing (Two Samples)

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Effect Sizes & Cohen's d

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Mann-Whitney U, ANOVA, Correlations, ICC

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Markov & Chebyshev Inequalities

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Part III

High-Dimensional Geometry

Section 3.1

Geometry of High Dimensions

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Volume of the Unit Ball

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Sampling from the Unit Ball

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Section 3.4

Gaussians in High Dimensions

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Near Orthogonality

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Random Projections

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Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma

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Part IV

Matrix Decompositions & Dimensionality Reduction

Section 4.1

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)

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Singular Values & Best-Fit Subspaces

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Another Interpretation of SVD

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Section 4.4

k-Rank Approximations

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To Center or Not to Center?

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Section 4.6

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

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Effects of Feature Scale

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Part V

Machine Learning

Section 5.1

Introduction to Machine Learning

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Ordinary Least Squares (OLS)

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Logistic Regression

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Section 5.4

Performance Metrics

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Section 5.5

Training ML Models

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Cross Validation

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Regularization (Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet)

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Hyperparameters

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Interpreting Linear Models

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Section 5.10

Decision Trees

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Decision Tree Ensembles (Bagging & Boosting)

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Part VI

Markov Processes

Section 6.1

Markov Chains

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Chapman-Kolmogorov Equation

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Stationary Distributions

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Section 6.4

Hidden Markov Models (HMM)

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Forward Algorithm (Likelihood)

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Viterbi Algorithm (Decoding)

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Forward-Backward / Baum-Welch (Learning)

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Section 6.8

Random Walks

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)

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Metropolis-Hastings & Gibbs Sampling

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Part VII

Time Series & Digital Signal Processing

Section 7.1

Time-Series Introduction

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Frequency Domain & Fourier Series

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Spectrograms

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Section 7.4

Digital Filters

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Finite Impulse Response (FIR)

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Infinite Impulse Response (IIR)

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Section 7.7

Time Series Segmentation

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Classical Time Series Features

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Spectral Features & MFCC

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Section 7.10

Deep Learning for Time Series

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CNNs for Time Series

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Sequences, Attention & Transformers

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