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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Spring 2022 at UC San Diego

Suraj Rampure

Suraj Rampure

he/him

rampure@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MWF 3-3:50PM and 4-4:50PM in Center Hall 109 or Zoom

This is the website for a past version of DSC 80. However, you can access all course content by clicking the links below, or by accessing the course GitHub repository.

All podcasts 🎥 (lecture recordings) are available on YouTube at this link.

Week 1 – Welcome to DSC 80! 👋

Mar 28

LEC 1 Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Mar 30

LEC 2 Pandas

Ch. 2

DIS 1 Introduction (due 4/2)

Apr 1

LEC 3 More Pandas

Ch. 2, 3

Week 2 – Missing Values and Hypothesis Testing

Apr 4

LEC 4 Messy Data

Ch. 3, 4.1-4.2

Lab 1 Introduction (due 4/4) (setup video)

SUR Welcome + Alternate Exams Form (due 4/4)

Apr 6

LEC 5 Unfaithful Data, Hypothesis Testing

Ch. 4, CIT 11

DIS 2 Pandas (due 4/9)

Apr 7

PROJ 1 Gradebook (CP due 4/7, Full due 4/14) (partners) (🎥)

Apr 8

LEC 6 Hypothesis Testing

CIT 11

Week 3 – DataFrame Manipulation

Apr 11

LEC 7 Grouping and Pivoting

Ch. 5.1-5.2

Lab 2 Pandas (due 4/11)

Apr 13

LEC 8 Pivoting, Simpson’s Paradox, and Concatenation

Ch. 5.3

DIS 3 Hypothesis Testing, Combining Data (due 4/16)

Apr 14

PROJ 1 Gradebook (due 4/14) (partners) (🎥)

Apr 15

LEC 9 Combining Data

Ch. 5.4

Week 4 – Permutation Testing and Missing Values

Apr 18

LEC 10 Permutation Testing

Ch. 5.5, CIT 12

Lab 3 Hypothesis Testing and DataFrame Manipulation (due 4/18)

Apr 20

LEC 11 Missing Values

Ch. 6.1-6.2

DIS 4 Visualization (due 4/23)

Apr 21

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (CP due 4/21, Full due 4/30)

Apr 22

LEC 12 More Missing Values

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Week 5 – Midterm Exam ‼️

Apr 25

LEC 13 Imputation

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Lab 4 Pivot Tables, Permutation Testing, and Missing Values (due 4/25)

Apr 27

SRV Mid-Quarter Survey (due 4/27 before the exam)

Exam Midterm Exam (in-person, during lecture)

Apr 29

LEC 14 HTTP Basics

Ch. 7.1-7.2

Apr 30

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (due 4/30)

Week 6 – Scraping and Regex

May 2

LEC 15 Requests and Parsing HTML

Ch. 7.3

Lab 5 Imputation (due 5/2)

May 4

LEC 16 Parsing, Regular Expressions

Ch. 7.3, 8.1

DIS 5 Scraping (due 5/7)

May 6

LEC 17 Regular Expressions

Ch. 8.1-8.2

Week 7 – Feature Engineering

May 9

LEC 18 Text as Data

Ch. 8.1-8.2

Lab 6 APIs and Web Scraping (due 5/9)

May 11

LEC 19 Text as Data, Continued

Ch. 8.1-8.2

DIS 6 Regex and Text (due 5/14)

May 12

PROJ 3 Exploratory Data Analysis (due 5/12, no Checkpoint)

May 13

LEC 20 Features

Ch. 9.1

Week 8 – Modeling

May 16

LEC 21 Feature Engineering and Modeling

Ch. 10.1

Lab 7 Regular Expressions (due 5/16)

May 18

LEC 22 Modeling and sklearn

Ch. 10.2

DIS 7 Linear Regression and Feature Engineering (due 5/21)

May 19

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (Checkpoint due 5/19, Project due 5/26)

May 20

LEC 23 Pipelines and Evaluation

Ch. 11.1-11.2

Week 9 – Model Evaluation

May 23

LEC 24 Cross-Validation

Lab 8 Feature Engineering (due 5/23)

May 25

LEC 25 Decision Trees, Grid Search, and Multicollinearity

DIS 8 sklearn (due 5/28)

May 26

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (due 5/26)

May 27

LEC 26 Examples and Classifier Evaluation

Week 10 – Fairness, Conclusion

May 30

N/A (Memorial Day)

May 31

Lab 9 Modeling and Pipelines (due 5/31)

Jun 1

LEC 27 Classifier Evaluation, Fairness

DIS 9 Review

Jun 3

LEC 28 Fairness, Conclusion

Week 11 – Final Exam and Project 5

Jun 4

SRV End-of-Quarter Survey + CAPEs (due 6/4 8AM)

Exam Final Exam (11:30AM-2:30PM, in-person) (logistics information)

Jun 9

PROJ 5 Model Building 🛠 (due 6/9, no Checkpoint or Slip Days)