• Course Syllabus
• Read Letters from past students
• Course Calendar
• Homework Assignments as they become available and homework guidelines
  
• Lecture Notes for downloading as they become available
• A Mathematica Guide and information about Mathematica Access (on MyQC)
• Guidelines for your Group Project
• A link to Blackboard

Key Dates: (subject to change)

• First Day of Class: January 28
  
• First Exam: March 6
• Project Topic Due: March 13
• Organizational Statement Due: March 20
  
• Project Draft Due: April 17
  
• Written Project Due: April 24
  
• Second Exam: May 8
• Last Day of Class: May 15
• Project Presentations: May 13, May 15 and on final exam day.
  

Office hours:

I am happy to help you with your homework and other class-related questions during my office hours. I have official office hours as posted on my schedule. In addition, you are welcome to make an appointment or stop by my office in Kissena 355 at any time.

Modeling links:

• Wolfram Alpha
• The case for fitting data points visually
• Chaos in dynamical systems (Logistic Map)
• Help determine if a variable is dependent or independent
• Sampling methods
• Least-Squares Polynomial Applet
• Modeling using random numbers
• 2D Random Walk Simulation of a walk on an infinite grid.
• 2D Random Walk Simulation of a sailor through city blocks
• Modeling people's behavior for going to a bar
• Crime Fighting and Mathematical Models
• Examples of Correlation not implying Causation (read the first answer)
• Extrapolation: Moore's Law
• DataGenetics: A wonderful blog of data driven analysis.
• A refresher about random variables (YouTube)