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DSC 40A

Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I 🥑

DSC 40A, Fall 2022 at UC San Diego

📅Midterm Schedule:
The Midterm is scheduled for 28th October 2022. The midterm will be in-person for a duration of 1 hour. It will take place during lecture hours of each batch at the same location as that of the lectures. Students must attend the session they are enrolled in.
Truong Son Hy

Truong Son Hy

he/him

tshy@ucsd.edu

Lecture: MWF 3PM-3:50PM, PCYNH 122

Mahdi Soleymani

Mahdi Soleymani

he/him

msoleymani@ucsd.edu

Lecture: MWF 4PM-4:50PM, PCYNH 122

Lecture Recordings

Week 0 – Welcome to DSC 40A! 👋

Sep 23

LEC 1 Son Introduction, Learning From Data, Annotated

C1, P1-5

LEC 1 Mahdi Introduction, Learning From Data, Annotated

C1, P1-5

Week 1 – Empirical Risk Minimization🔍

Sep 26

LEC 2 Son Minimizing Mean Absolute Error, Annotated

C1, P5-9

LEC 2 Mahdi Minimizing Mean Absolute Error, Annotated, Code

C1, P5-9

Sep 28

LEC 3 Son MSE and Empirical Risk Minimization, Annotated

LEC 3 Mahdi MSE and Empirical Risk Minimization, Annotated, Code

C1, P9-12

Sep 29

Group1 OUT Groupwork 1 Write-up

Sep 30

LEC 4 Son Spread, Other Loss Functions, Gradient Descent, Annotated

LEC 4 MahdiSpread, Other Loss Functions, Annotated

C1, P12-15

HW1 OUT Homework 1 Write-up

Week 2 – Gradient Descent📈

Oct 3

LEC 5 Son Gradient Descent and Convexity, Annotated

LEC 5 Mahdi Gradient Descent, Annotated

C1, P16-17

DISCUSSION 1 Discussion 1

GROUP1 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Oct 5

LEC 6 Son Simple Linear Regression

LEC 6 Mahdi Gradient Descent, Convexity, Annotated, Code

C1, P16-17

Oct 6

Group2 OUT Groupwork 2 Write-up

Oct 7

HW1 DUE Submit before 2pm on Gradescope

LEC 7 Son Simple Linear Regression Cont

LEC 7 MahdiConvexity, Linear Regression, Annotated

C2, P1-7

HW2 OUT Homework 2 Write-up

Week 3 – Linear Regression

Oct 10

LEC 8 Son More Simple Linear Regression

LEC 8 Mahdi Simple Linear Regression, Annotated

C2, P1-7

DISCUSSION 2 Discussion 2

GROUP2 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Oct 12

LEC 9 Son Regression and Linear Algebra

LEC 9 MahdiMore Simple Linear Regression, Annotated, Code

C2, P1-7

Oct 13

Group3 OUT Groupwork 3 Write-up

Oct 14

HW2 DUE Submit before 2pm on Gradescope

LEC 10 Son Regression and Linear Algebra Cont.

LEC 10 MahdiLinear Algebra and Regression, Annotated

C2, P9-13

HW3 OUT Homework 3 Write-up

Week 4 – Linear Regression and Feature Engineering

Oct 17

LEC 11 Son Multiple Linear Regression and Feature Engineering, Code

LEC 11 Mahdi Regression and Linear Algebra, Annotated, Code

C2, P14-19

DISCUSSION 3 Discussion 3

GROUP3 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Oct 19

LEC 12 Son Multiple LR and Feature Engineering Cont, Code

LEC 12 MahdiMultiple LR and Feature Engineering, Annotated, Code

C2, P14-19

Oct 20

Group4 OUT Groupwork 4 Write-up

Oct 21

HW3 DUE Submit before 2pm on Gradescope

LEC 13 Son Feature Engineering and Taxonomy of ML, Code

LEC 13 MahdiFeature Engineering, Annotated, Code

C2, P14-19

Week 5 – Midterm!

Oct 24

LEC 14 Son ML and Clustering

LEC 14 Mahdi Feature Engineering, Clustering, Annotated, Code

DISCUSSION 4 Discussion 4

Oct 26

LEC 15 Son Clustering, Code

LEC 15 Mahdi Review Session

Oct 28

Midterm Midterm Exam❗

HW4 OUT Homework 4 Write-up

Week 6 – Probability

Oct 31

LEC 16 Son Clustering and Probability

LEC 16 Mahdi Clustering, Annotated, Code

DISCUSSION 5 Discussion 5

Nov 2

LEC 17 Son Midterm Overview

LEC 17 MahdiIntroduction to Probability, Annotated

Nov 3

Group5 OUT Groupwork 5 Write-up

Nov 4

LEC 18 Son Foundation of Probability

LEC 18 Mahdi Conditional Probability, Annotated

HW5 OUT Homework 5 Write-up

HW4 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Week 7 – Probability and Combinatorics

Nov 7

LEC 19 Son Combinatorics

LEC 19 Mahdi Conditional Probability, Combinatorics, Annotated

DISCUSSION 6 Discussion 6

GROUP5 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Nov 9

LEC 20 Son Law of Total Probability, Code

LEC 20 Mahdi More Combinatorics, Law of Total Probability, Annotated, Code

Nov 10

Group6 OUT Groupwork 6 Write-up

Nov 11

LEC Son N/A (Veteran’s Day)

LEC Mahdi N/A (Veteran’s Day)

HW6 OUT Homework 6 Write-up

HW5 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Week 8 – More Probability

Nov 14

LEC 21 Son The law of total probability and Bayes’ Theorem

LEC 21 Mahdi Bayes’ Theorem, Independence, Annotated

DISCUSSION 7 Discussion 7

GROUP6 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Nov 16

LEC 22 Son Independence and Classification

LEC 22 MahdiIndependence, Conditional Independence, Annotated

Nov 17

Group7 OUT Groupwork 7 Write-up

Nov 18

LEC 23 Son Naive Bayes

LEC 23 Mahdi Classification and Conditional Independence, Annotated

HW7 OUT Homework 7 Write-up

HW6 DUE Submit before 2:00pm on Gradescope

Week 9 – Naive Bayes

Nov 21

LEC 24 Son More Naive Bayes, Code

LEC 24 Mahdi Naive Bayes, Annotated, Code

DISCUSSION 8 Discussion 8

GROUP7 DUE Submit before 11:59pm on Gradescope

Nov 23

LEC 25 Son Logistic Regression and MLE

LEC 25 Mahdi Naive Bayes, Annotated

Nov 26

HW8 OUT Homework 8 Write-up

Week 10 – Last Week!

Nov 28

HW7 DUE Submit before 2:00pm on Gradescope

LEC 26 Son LR and MLE Cont

LEC 26 Mahdi Review, Annotated

Nov 30

LEC 27 Son Course summary

LEC 27 MahdiReview, Annotated

Dec 2

LEC 28 Son Review problems

LEC 28 MahdiAnnotated

Dec 3

Final Final Exam❗

Week 11 – Enjoy Your Break!

Dec 6

HW8 DUE Optional!! Submit before 2:00pm on Gradescope