Course Management

Course overview

Total enrollments: 1168
Project submissions: 7
Project completion rate: 0.6%
Average total score: 2.9
Overall completion rate: 8.1%

Project outcomes

Score to pass: 6
Passed: 0
Failed: 7
Median project score: -

Homework statistics

Median time and score by homework. Hover values on desktop for interquartile ranges.

Homework	Submissions	Completion	Lecture time	Homework time	Total time	Median score
Homework 1: Intro and Data Sources	148	12.7%	2h	3h	5h	10
Homework 2: One Dataframe	109	9.3%	2h	3h	5.5h	11
Homework 3: The Model	72	6.2%	2h	3h	5h	11
Homework 4: Trading System	48	4.1%	3h	3h	5h	5

Homework 1: Intro and Data Sources

Submissions: 148
Completion: 12.7%
Median score: 10
Lecture time: 2h
Homework time: 3h
Total time: 5h

Homework 2: One Dataframe

Submissions: 109
Completion: 9.3%
Median score: 11
Lecture time: 2h
Homework time: 3h
Total time: 5.5h

Homework 3: The Model

Submissions: 72
Completion: 6.2%
Median score: 11
Lecture time: 2h
Homework time: 3h
Total time: 5h

Homework 4: Trading System

Submissions: 48
Completion: 4.1%
Median score: 5
Lecture time: 3h
Homework time: 3h
Total time: 5h

Assignment difficulty

Ranked by lowest median question score relative to the maximum achievable. Normalizing by question count makes homeworks of different lengths comparable; a lower percentage indicates a harder assignment.

Rank	Homework	Median score	Score %	Completion
1	Homework 4: Trading System	4 / 10	40.0%	4.1%
2	Homework 1: Intro and Data Sources	10 / 12	83.3%	12.7%
3	Homework 2: One Dataframe	11 / 11	100.0%	9.3%
4	Homework 3: The Model	11 / 11	100.0%	6.2%

Question difficulty

Share of submitted answers that were correct, per question. A lower percentage points to a harder or more confusing question. Participation-only questions are excluded.

Homework	Question	Correct	Answers	% correct
Homework 1: Intro and Data Sources	Which year had the highest number of additions (starting from 2020)?	137	148	92.6%
	How many indexes (out of 10) have better year-to-date returns than the US (S&P 500) as of August 21, 2026?	132	148	89.2%
	Median drawdown (in %) of significant market corrections in the S&P 500 index	129	148	87.2%
	Calculate the median 2-day percentage change in stock prices following positive earnings surprise days.	103	148	69.6%
	Idea for your capstone project	0	148	0.0%
	Investigate new metrics	0	148	0.0%
Homework 2: One Dataframe	What is the total withdrawn IPO value (in $ millions) for the company class with the highest total withdrawal value?	103	109	94.5%
	What is the median Sharpe ratio (as of 11 September 2026) for companies that went public before 1 September 2025?	95	109	87.2%
	What is the optimal number of months (1 to 12) to hold a newly IPO'd stock in order to maximize the median growth value?	94	109	86.2%
	What is the total profit (in $ thousands) you would have earned by investing $1000 every time a stock was oversold (RSI < 30)?	97	109	89.0%
Homework 3: The Model	What is the ABSOLUTE CORRELATION VALUE of the most correlated dummy variable _w<week_of_month> with the binary outcome is_positive_growth_30d_future	64	72	88.9%
	What is the precision score for the best of the NEW predictions (pred3 or pred4), rounded to 3 digits after the comma?	53	72	73.6%
	What is the total number of records in the TEST dataset where the new prediction pred5_clf_10 is correct, while all 'hand' rule predictions (pred0 to pred4) are incorrect?	57	72	79.2%
	What is the optimal tree depth (from 1 to 12) for a DecisionTreeClassifier?	56	72	77.8%
Homework 4: Trading System	Find the CAGR for the pred10_rf_best_rule_55 using the new setup (with fewer dummy variables)	19	48	39.6%
	What is the probability threshold for the second-best Random Forest decision rule, if you want to have the number of average trades per day BELOW 5?	24	48	50.0%
	What is the number of trades for the best predictor pred5_clf_10 (after redefining the target variable)	30	48	62.5%

Submission timing

When homework submissions arrive relative to the deadline, across all assignments.

A week or more early: 64 (15.6%)
3-7 days early: 56 (13.6%)
1-3 days early: 72 (17.5%)
Final day: 187 (45.5%)
After the deadline: 32 (7.8%)

Engagement over time

Homework submissions per week, across all assignments. Bars are scaled to the busiest week.

Aug 24, 2026: 14
Aug 31, 2026: 11
Sep 07, 2026: 45
Sep 14, 2026: 93
Sep 21, 2026: 41
Sep 28, 2026: 63
Oct 05, 2026: 18
Oct 12, 2026: 46
Oct 19, 2026: 9
Oct 26, 2026: 42
Nov 02, 2026: 28
Nov 09, 2026: 1

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