Weekly Schedule
May 21-23 (Training Week)
May 21st – Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311 (EVERY MON-THUR)
- Daily Goals
- DSPG Introductions, Data Camp Assessments, and Data Team Activity
- 8:00 – 9:30:
- Program Introductions and Syllabus
- 9:30 - 12:00:
- DataCamp Assessments
- Analytic Fundamentals
- R Programming
- Python Programming
- AI Fundamentals
- DataCamp Assessments
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 1:15: Data Team Activity Introduction
- 1:15 - 3:15: Data Team Activity Work Time
- 3:15 - 4:00: Data Team Activity Presentations
May 22nd – Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Git, GitHub, Teams, Outlook Calendar, CyBox, and Blogs Setup
- 8:00 – 10:00:
- Create a GitHub Account and Join GitHub Education
- Read through What is Git? The Complete Guide to Git
- Install and Set Up Git usernames locally
- Complete the Introduction to GitHub Lesson
- Complete the Review Pull Requests Lesson
- Complete the Resolve Merge Conflicts Lesson
- Complete the Communicate Using Markdown Lesson
- Other GitHub Skills to Explore
- 10:00 – 10:30:
- Go over the Teams’ Channels
- 10:30 – 12:00:
- Introduction to GitHub Classrooms System
- Introduction to Quarto and Positron
- Quarto Blogs Setup and Training
- 12:00 – 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 – 4:00:
- Transforming First-Day Activity into a Quarto Blog Post
May 23rd – Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200 (EVERY FRIDAY)
- Daily Goals
- Blog Student Introduction Presentations and DataCamp
- 8:00 – 12:00:
- Student Introduction Presentation Preparations
- DataCamp Training
- Select either of the Introductory R or Python Track Assignments
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 – 3:00: Student Introduction Presentations
May 26-30
May 26th – Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
Memorial Day Break - No DSPG
May 27th – Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Tidycensus Training
- 8:00 - 12:00: Tidycensus Training Starts
- Introduction: Read through the Topics below on Census Reporter
- Getting Started
- About the Census
- Geography
- Look through the Table Codes to get an idea of what’s available
- The Census Subjects headings detail how each variable is collected and what tables are associated with those variables
- Practice in R: Read through the Designated Sections of the Analyzing US Census Data Book
- Review the material from the Preface up to Chapter 5: Census Geographic Data and Applications in R
- Introduction: Read through the Topics below on Census Reporter
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:30: Tidycensus Training Continues
- Recent Materials: Review the Working with the 2023 ACS and Analyzing 2020 Decennial US Census Data in R presentations. There is a lot of overlap with the book, but you can click the hamburger icon on the bottom left to navigate the menu when its information you’ve already learned.
- You may also want to view the recording of the 2023 ACS lecture or a recording of the Decennial Census with the slides if this is how you prefer following along.
- Census Mapping: Go through the Doing ‘GIS’ and making maps with US Census data in R slides. You can use also access a recording of the mapping slides these materials for the upcoming Census Report assignment.
- Recent Materials: Review the Working with the 2023 ACS and Analyzing 2020 Decennial US Census Data in R presentations. There is a lot of overlap with the book, but you can click the hamburger icon on the bottom left to navigate the menu when its information you’ve already learned.
- 3:30 - 4:00: Introduce the Census Report Assignment.
May 28th – Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Project Assignments and Census Report assignment
- 8:00 - 10:30: Complete Census Training Material
- 10:30 - 12:00: Team Assignments and First Client Meetings
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 4:00: : Census Report or Project Specific DataCamps
May 29th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Project Assignments and Census Report assignment
- All Day: Census Report or Project Specific DataCamps
May 30th - Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200
- Daily Goals
- Elizabeth Sloan - Social Inequalities in AI presentation
- 8:00 - 11:00: Complete Census Reports
- 11:00 - 12:00: Social Inequalities in AI presentation
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 4:00: Census Report Presentations
June 2-6
June 2nd - Monday
- Daily Goals
- Chris Seeger - Tableau Workshop & Sam Good - Responsible AI in Research presentation
- 8:00 - 10:00: Start of project work
- 10:00 - 12:00: Tableau Workshop
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 2:00: Responsible AI in Research presentation
- Rest of Day: Begin Project Specific Work Continues
June 3rd - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Continue Project Work
- 8:00 - 12:00: Project Specific Work Continues
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 4:00: Project Specific Work Continues
- End of Day Journaling Starts (Every Tuesday & Thursday)
June 4th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Data Wrangling Activity & Continue Project Work
- 8:00 - 11:00: Continue Project Specific Work
- 11:00 - 12:00: Data Wrangling Activity
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 5th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Thao Nguyen - AI Hallucinations presentation in the morning
- 8:00 - 11:00: Project Specific Work Continues
- 11:00 - 12:00: AI Hallucinations Presentation
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- Rest of Day: Project Specific Work Continues
June 6th - Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200
- Daily Goals
- Create First Weekly Team Blog
- 8:00 - 10:00: Complete this Week’s Project Goals
- 10:00 - 12:00: Student’s Create Weekly Team Blog
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:00: Student’s Present Team Weekly Blog
- 3:00 - 4:00: Review Feedback and Submit Final weekly Blog
June 9-13
June 9th - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Continue Project Work & Tableau Workshop Part Two
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 10:00 - 12:00: Continuation of Tableau Workshop
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 10th - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Daily Goals
- Continue Project Work - Tentative Guest Speaker
- 8:00 - 11:30: Continue Project Work
- 11:30 - 12:30: Guest Speaker
- 12:30 - 1:30: Lunch Break
- 1:30 - 4:00: Continue Project Work
June 11th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
-
Data Wrangling Activity & Continue Project Work
- 8:00 - 11:00: Continue Project Specific Work
- 11:00 - 12:00: Data Wrangling Activity - Graphing Exercise
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 12th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
Gretta Buttelman - Machine Learning in Biology presentation
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 1:00 - 2:00: Machine Learning in Biology presentation
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 13th - Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200
- 8:00 - 10:00: Complete this Week’s Project Goals
- 10:00 - 12:00: Student’s Create Weekly Team Blog
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:00: Student’s Present Team Weekly Blog
- 3:00 - 4:00: Review Feedback and Submit Final weekly Blog
June 16-20 (Mid-Program Week)
June 16th - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Morning Meetings are Online
- 1:00 - 4:00: Meet for the afternoon in-person at East Hall 311
- 1:00 - 3:00: Jorge Yass - SQL Workshop
June 17th - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 18th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 10:00 - 11:30: Jay Maxwell - Introduction to Spatial Data
- Rest of Day: Preparations for Midterm Presentations
June 19th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Midterm Presentation Prep
June 20th - Friday
- Location
- East Hall 311 - Only This Week
- 8:00 - 10:00: Complete Midterm Presentations
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:00: Student Midterm Presentations
- 3:00 - 4:00: Review Feedback and Submit Final weekly Blog
June 23-27
June 23rd - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
- Begin One-On-One Meetings
June 24th - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
Hannah Gates - LLMs for Resume Screening presentation
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 1:00 - 2:00 - LLMs for Resume Screening Presentation
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
- Continue One-On-One Meetings
June 25th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
Karthik Hanumanthaiah - Interpretability for ML Models
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 1:00 - 2:00: Model interpretation in ML/AI Presentation
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 26th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
June 27th - Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200
- 8:00 - 10:00: Complete this Week’s Project Goals
- 10:00 - 12:00: Student’s Create Weekly Team Blog
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:00: Student’s Present Team Weekly Blog
- 3:00 - 4:00: Review Feedback and Submit Final weekly Blog
June 30 - July 4
June 30th - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
July 1st - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
July 2nd - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 9:00: Data Wrangling Activity
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
July 3rd - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
Ying Weo - Structured Data Augmentation presentation
- 8:00 - 12:00: Project Members Meet with their Teams
- 12:00 - 1:00: Structured Data Augmentation presentation
- 1:00 - 2:00: Lunch Break
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Specific Work
July 4th - Friday
July 4th Independence Day - No DSPG
July 7-11
July 7th - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 8th - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- 8:00 - 11:00: Tableau Workshop by Christopher Seeger
- Rest of Day: Continue Project Work
July 9th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 10th - Thursday
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 11th - Friday
Thomas Young - Interpretable Deep Learning presentation
- All Day: Continue Project Work -3:00 - 4:00: Interpretable Deep Learning
July 14-18
July 14th - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 15th - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 16th - Wednesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 17th - Thursday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Project Work
July 18th - Friday
- Location
- Marston 2200
- 8:00 - 10:00: Complete this Week’s Project Goals
- 10:00 - 12:00: Student’s Create Weekly Team Blog
- 12:00 - 1:00: Lunch Break
- 1:00 - 3:00: Student’s Present Team Weekly Blog
- 3:00 - 4:00: Review Feedback and Submit Final weekly Blog
July 21-24 (Final Week)
July 21st - Monday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- All Day: Continue Presentation Preparations
July 22nd - Tuesday
- Location
- East Hall 311
- Morning: Mock Presentations to Project Advisors
- Afternoon: Incorporate Feedback into Presentations
July 23rd - Wednesday
- Location
- Student Innovation Center 0114
Final Presentations
Presentation Schedule
- 9:15 - 9:30: Introduction to DSPG Presentations
- 9:30 - 10:15: Presentation: Iowa STEM Inventory
- 10:15 - 10:30: Session Q&A
- 10:30 - 11:15: Presentation: Community Capitals
- 11:15 - 11:30: Session Q&A
- 11:30 - 11:40: Concluding Remarks