MATH:5760:0AAA Mathematical Biology II
Spring 2026
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Instructor:  Dr. Isabel K. Darcy
Department of Mathematics and AMCS
University of Iowa
Office: MLH 25J
Phone: 319-335- 0770
Email: isabel-darcy AT uiowa.edu

Ways to get help:

Your grade will be based on

TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE-ALL DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE (click on date/section for file of corresponding class material):

Tentative ScheduleHW/Announcements -- replace with references
Week 1
1/20 Introduction to data analysis HW: Create github account
1/22 LAB 1: Introduction to Github 1,
Introduction to Python,
Week 2
1/27 Intro to ML ,     Linear Regression HW:
1/29 LAB 2: Introduction to Github 2;
Python: creating artificial data OR downloading real data, linear regression on unclean data
Week 3
2/3 Data cleaning,    
Linear Regression, p-values
HW: due Friday 2/6
Lab 1
2/5 LAB 3: Introduction to Github 3, intro to cleaning data, linear regression on partially cleaned data
Week 4
2/10 Noise Data cleaning, PCA,   
p-values, data cleaning Linear Regression, Variance
HW: due Friday 2/13
Lab 2,   Create personal webpage on Github
2/12 Lab 4: Introduction to Git, Intro to PCA, Linear regression
Week 5
2/17 Logistic Regression HW: due Friday 2/20
Lab 3,    Project draft 1,    poster idea
2/19 Lab 5:
Week 6
2/24 Logistic Regression part 2 HW: due Friday 2/27
Lab 4,    poster draft
2/26 Lab 6:
Week 7
3/3 Presentations: Illustrate something you have learned.
Variance, PCA
HW: due Friday 3/6
Lab 5,    Project draft 2   
3/5 Review,    Lab 7:
Week 8
3/10 Midterm Exam HW: due Friday 3/13
Lab 6
3/12 Lab 8:
***** Spring Break March 15 - 22 ****
Week 9
3/23 Test/Train, Data Leakage, Bias/Variance, Shrinkage HW: due Friday 3/26
Lab 7,    Idea for poster,    python script
3/25 Shrinkage Lab 9:
Week 10
3/31 k-nearest neighbors, HW: due Friday 4/3
Lab 8,    Poster draft,    Project draft 3   
Voronoi (6:06 min) and k-means (9:10 min)
4/2 Lab 10:
Week 11
4/7 k-means clustering,    Hierarchical Clustering,    HW: due Friday 4/10
Lab 9,   
4/9 Clustering
Lab 11:
Week 12
4/14 Presentations: Use artificial or real data to illustrate something.
neural networks and deep learning
HW: due Friday 4/17
Lab 10,    Project draft 4   
4/16 neural networks and deep learning
Lab 12:
Week 13
4/21 neural networks and deep learning HW: due Friday 4/24
Lab 11,    Poster draft 1 due Friday 4/19
4/23 neural networks and deep learning
Lab 13
Week 14
4/28 Ethics, reproducible research, publication bias, data privacy HW: due Friday 5/1
Lab 12,    Project draft 5,    Poster draft 2 due Friday 4/26
4/30 Lab wrap-up
Week 15
5/5 Presentations HW: due Friday 5/8
Lab 13,    Poster draft 3 and written project
5/7 Presentations, Review
Final's week
TBA Final exam: TBA

References:

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in Python, http://www.statlearning.com
Scikit-learn Machine Learning in Python, available at https://scikit-learn.org
StatQuest: eg: https://statquest.org/video-index/, https://statquest.org/neural-networks-part-1-inside-the-black-box/