Class meets Thursdays 12:30 to 13:40 and Fridays 11:10 to 13:40, online (streaming). A few sessions are in person; those are marked with a star * in the table below. Trimester runs March 2 to April 30; the final project extends the schedule to June 5 (in-person memo).
Trimester calendar (UDD official)
- March 2. Start of the academic semester / first bimester.
- March 16 to 17. Add/drop window (modificación de carga académica).
- April 13 to 18. First certamen week (no class).
- April 30. End of first bimester; grade close.
- May 4. Start of second bimester.
Week-by-week
| Week | Dates | Topic | Deliverables |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 * | Mar 5–6 | Intro and tools; overview of all three datasets. Week 0 slides (PDF); walkthrough scripts in Resources. | Tarea 0 released. |
| 1 | Mar 12–13 | Census data structure: parquet, pandas + pyarrow. | Tarea 0 due (Mar 12); Tarea 1 released. |
| 2 | Mar 19–20 | Census: joins, filtering, demographic and migration indicators. | |
| 3 | Mar 26–27 | ENO + GRD: loading, cleaning, ICD-10 lookups, disease profiles. | Tarea 1 due (Mar 26); Tarea 2 released. |
| 4 | Apr 2–3 | Health data deep dive: rates, age groups, spatial mapping. | |
| 5 | Apr 9–10 | Certamen week (no class). | |
| 6 | Apr 16–17 | Cross-dataset ecological analysis at the comuna level. | Tarea 2 due (Apr 16); Tarea 3 + Quiz 1 released. Quiz 1 due Mon Apr 20. |
| 7 | Apr 23–24 | Modeling and integration: ecological regression, synthesis. | |
| 8 | Apr 30 | Tarea 3 wrap-up. | Tarea 3 due (Apr 30); Final project released (May 9). |
| 9 | May 15 | (no class) Anomaly-proposal gate. | Anomaly proposal due (ungraded gate). |
| 10 | May 29 | (no class) Repo + video deadline. | Final repo + video due. |
| 11 * | Jun 5 | In person. Handwritten memo (individual, 45 min, no AI / laptops / notes). | Final memo (individual). |
* in person.
Source files
Admin.md (UDD calendar, Markdown). The week-by-week is also embedded in the syllabus.