Labs & Assignments
Lab assignments are part of the Attendance & Participation component (10% of the final grade). Assignments are due by the end of the week following the lab session. A two-week grace period applies; each late week incurs a 25% penalty.
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Lab 2 — Python Basics & Minimal NumPy
Week 2
· due End of Week 2
Practice Python variables, lists, dicts, indexing & slicing, and minimal NumPy in a notebook; upload your .ipynb to the course Drive folder.
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Lab 0 — Environment Setup & First Orange Project
Week 2
· due End of Week 2
Set up your Python environment (VS Code or Google Colab), install Orange Data Mining, and build your first workflow to explore the HDI economic dataset.
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Lab 3 — Data Scrubbing in Orange
Week 3
· due End of Week 3
Load a messy e-commerce customer file in Orange, apply the four pillars of data scrubbing plus outlier handling, normalisation, and simple feature engineering, then export a model-ready dataset with a short business memo.
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Lab 4 — pandas & Journal-Style Figures with cnsplots
Week 4
· due End of Week 4
Build a notebook from scratch: turn PathMNIST histology images into a pandas feature table, explore tissue types, try a small tumor classifier, and compose a multi-panel Nature-style figure with cnsplots. Submit one PDF report (not the notebook).