Practice and Application of Data Science
DSC 80, Winter 2023 at UC San Diego
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Week 1 – From BabyPandas to Pandas
- Jan 9
LEC 1 Introduction
- Jan 11
LEC 2 DataFrame Fundamentals
- Jan 13
Week 2 – DataFrames
- Jan 16
N/A (MLK Day)
- Jan 18
LEC 4 Grouping
Lab 1 Python, NumPy, and Pandas (due 1/18 at 4PM, no slip days)
- Jan 19
- Jan 20
Week 3 – Messy Data
- Jan 23
LEC 6 Concatenating and Merging
🎥 • Ch. 5.3-5.4
The audio in the podcast died; refer to the podcast from Spring 2022.
Lab 2 More Pandas (due 1/23)
- Jan 25
LEC 7 Relational Algebra, Data Cleaning
- Jan 26
PROJ 1 Gradebook 💯 (due 1/26)
- Jan 27
Week 4 – Statistical Testing and Missing Values
- Jan 30
LEC 9 Hypothesis Testing
Lab 3 Grouping, Pivoting, and Combining (due 1/30)
- Feb 1
LEC 10 Permutation Testing
- Feb 2
- Feb 3
LEC 11 Permutation Testing, Missingness Mechanisms
🎥 • Ch. 6.1-6.2
Extra notebook on fast permutation tests
Week 5 – Missingness Mechanisms and Imputation
- Feb 6
LEC 12 Identifying Missingness Mechanisms
🎥 • Ch. 6.3-6.5
Extra notebook with more missingness examples
- Feb 8
LEC 13 Imputation
🎥 • Ch. 6.3-6.5
- Feb 9
- Feb 10
LEC 14 HTTP Basics
🎥 • Ch. 7.1-7.2
Week 6 – HTTP and HTML, Midterm Exam
- Feb 13
LEC 15 Requests and Parsing HTML
🎥 • Ch. 7.1-7.2
- Feb 15
Exam Midterm Exam (in-person during lecture)
- Feb 17
LEC 16 More Parsing Examples
Week 7 – Text Data
- Feb 20
N/A (Presidents’ Day)
- Feb 22
LEC 17 Regular Expressions
🎥 • Ch. 8.1-8.2
Lab 6 HTTP and HTML (due 2/22 at 4PM, no slip days)
- Feb 23
PROJ 3 Exploratory Data Analysis 📊 (due 2/23, no checkpoint)
- Feb 24
LEC 18 Regular Expressions, Bag of Words
🎥 • Ch. 8.1-8.2
Week 8 – Modeling and Feature Engineering
- Feb 27
LEC 19 Bag of Words, TF-IDF
- Mar 1
LEC 20 Modeling and Linear Regression
- Mar 2
- Mar 3
LEC 21 Feature Engineering
Week 9 – sklearn Pipelines, Generalization, and Cross-Validation
- Mar 6
LEC 22 Pipelines, Generalization
- Mar 8
LEC 23 Cross-Validation
- Mar 9
PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (due 3/9)
- Mar 10
Week 10 – Classifier Evaluation, Fairness Criteria
There won't be live lecture on Wednesday (capstone showcase) or Friday (Suraj is at a conference); videos will be posted for those lectures in advance. Come to the capstone showcase on Wednesday!
- Mar 13
LEC 25 Grid Search, Multicollinearity, Examples
Lab 9 Pipelines (due 3/13)
- Mar 15
LEC 26 Classifier Evaluation (no live lecture, video only)
- Mar 17
LEC 27 Fairness Criteria, Conclusion (no live lecture, video only)
- Mar 18
SUR End-of-Quarter Survey + CAPEs (due 3/18 at 8AM)