Fall 2026 Capstone Projects

Below is the weekly schedule for Fall 2026 Capstone Projects. To access your weekly work guides, please visit the course website at https://piazza.com/umn/fall2026/dsci8760.

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Weekly Schedule

Week	Date	Topic	Assignment
1	Sep 8–11	Project Overviews	Complete setup and access data
2	Sep 14–18	Python fundamentals	Process data
3	Sep 21–25	k-Means Clustering	Assignment 1
4	Sep 28–Oct 2	Hierarchical Clustering	Assignment 2
5	Oct 5–9	Gaussian Mixture Models	Assignment 4
6	Oct 12–16	Density-Based Clustering (DBSCAN)	Assignment 5
7	Oct 19–23	Hierachical Density-Based Clustering (HDBSCAN)	Assignment 6
8	Oct 26–30	Spectral Clustering	Assignment 7
9	Nov 2–6	Fuzzy C-Means	Assignment 8
10	Nov 9–13	Consensus Clustering	Assignment 9
11	Nov 16–20	Latent Class Analysis	Assignment 10
12	Nov 23–27	Thanksgiving Break	—
13	Nov 30–Dec 4	Writing up your project	Assignment 11
14	Dec 7–11	Making a poster	Assignment 12