Principles of Data Science
DSC 10, Spring 2023 at UC San Diego
This is the website of a previous offering of DSC 10. To see the most recent offering, go to dsc10.com, and to see other DSC course websites, go to dsc-courses.github.io.
The Final Exam is on Saturday 6/10 from 7-10PM! Read this post on Ed for all the details.
- If at least 80% of the class fills out both CAPEs and the End-of-Quarter Survey by Saturday 6/10 at 8AM, then we will add 0.5% of extra credit to everyone’s overall grade. We’re currently only at 51% for CAPEs and 36% for the End-of-Quarter Survey!
- While studying, refer to these brand-new tutor-created videos and guides and the Diagrams tab on the course website.
Below, you can open “static” versions of each lecture by clicking the ✏️ emojis and watch podcasts by clicking the 🎥 emojis.
Week 1 – Welcome to DSC 10! 👋
- Mon Apr 3
LEC 1 Introduction ✏️
🎥 • CIT 1.2-1.3
- Wed Apr 5
LEC 2 Expressions and Data Types ✏️
- Fri Apr 7
LEC 3 Strings and Arrays ✏️ (extra video)
Week 2 – DataFrames
- Mon Apr 10
- Tue Apr 11
Lab 0 Expressions and Data Types
SUR Welcome Survey
- Wed Apr 12
LEC 5 More Querying and GroupBy ✏️ (extra video)
- Fri Apr 14
LEC 6 Data Visualization ✏️ (extra video)
🎥 • CIT 7, 7.1
- Sat Apr 15
Lab 1 Arrays and DataFrames
Week 3 – Visualization and More DataFrames
- Mon Apr 17
LEC 7 Histograms and Overlaid Plots ✏️
🎥 • CIT 7.2-7.3
- Tue Apr 18
- Wed Apr 19
LEC 8 Functions and Apply ✏️
- Fri Apr 21
LEC 9 Grouping on Multiple Columns, Merging ✏️
🎥 • BPD 11, 13
- Sat Apr 22
Week 4 – Probability and Simulation
- Mon Apr 24
LEC 10 Conditional Statements and Iteration ✏️
🎥 • CIT 9.1-9.2
- Tue Apr 25
- Wed Apr 26
LEC 11 Probability (blank, 12PM, 1PM)
- Fri Apr 28
LEC 12 Simulations ✏️
🎥 • CIT 9.3-9.4
- Sat Apr 29
Week 5 – Midterm Exam 🧪
- Mon May 1
LEC 13 Distributions and Sampling ✏️
🎥 • CIT 10-10.4
- Tue May 2
- Wed May 3
LEC 14 Midterm Review (blank, filled)
- Fri May 5
Exam Midterm Exam (in class)
Week 6 – Hypothesis Testing
There won't be live lecture on Wednesday or Friday, since Suraj is at a conference. Notebooks and videos for those lectures have already been posted below. On Wednesday from 1-1:50PM in Center 109, tutors will take up common misconceptions from the Midterm Exam.
- Mon May 8
LEC 15 Models and Viewpoints ✏️
The audio in the podcast died; refer to this podcast from Fall 2022.
- Tue May 9
PROJ Midterm Project (see partner guidelines)
- Wed May 10
LEC 16 Hypothesis Testing ✏️ (no live lecture)
Midterm Recap Session 🎥
DIS 6 Hypothesis Testing
- Fri May 12
LEC 17 TVD, Permutation Testing ✏️ (no live lecture)
- Sat May 13
Week 7 – Bootstrapping, Confidence Intervals, and Central Tendency
- Mon May 15
- Tue May 16
- Wed May 17
LEC 19 Bootstrapping, Percentiles, and Confidence Intervals ✏️
- Fri May 19
- Sat May 20
Week 8 – The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
- Mon May 22
- Tue May 23
- Wed May 24
LEC 22 The Normal Distribution, The Central Limit Theorem ✏️
DIS 8 The Normal Distribution
- Fri May 26
- Sat May 27
Week 9 – Prediction
- Mon May 29
No Lecture: Memorial Day
- Tue May 30
HW 6Confidence Intervals, the Normal Distribution, and the CLT
- Wed May 31
LEC 24 Correlation ✏️
🎥 • CIT 15-15.2
- Fri Jun 2
LEC 25 Regression and Least Squares ✏️
- Sat Jun 3
Lab 7 Regression
Week 10 – Review
- Mon Jun 5
LEC 26 Residuals and Inference ✏️
- Tue Jun 6
PROJ Final Project (see partner guidelines)
- Wed Jun 7
LEC 27 Winter 2023 Final Review (blank PDF, filled PDF)
DIS 10 Regression
- Fri Jun 9
LEC 28 Review, Conclusion (blank, 12PM, 1PM) ✏️
- Sat Jun 10
Exam Final Exam (7-10PM)
SUR End-of-Quarter Survey + CAPEs (due 8AM)