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Discovery Seminar - Intro to Data Science - Le - Spring 2025

This guide is for students in Dr. Le's Spring 2025 Discovery Seminar at Oxford College.

Dataset Reflection Questions

The Data

How big was the sample size and what data may have been left out? What controls were in place?
What other information do you need to contextualize the information presented in the data?
What other questions does it give you?

The People

What factors not measured in the dataset could have affected how the data was collected or represented?
Who collected this data? When? What was their goal?
What is explicitly stated in the data? What is inferred?

Choosing a Dataset Handout
The handout we will be using in class.

Dataset Sources

UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
The UCI Machine Learning Repository is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community for the empirical analysis of machine learning algorithms.
Kaggle
Search for repositories and datasets - just make sure to check the source for quality/accuracy!