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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Fall 2024 at UC San Diego

Sam Lau
he/him

lau@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): TuTh 9:30-10:50AM (A00), 11:00AM-12:20PM (B00) in Cognitive Science 002

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Week 0 – From BabyPandas to Pandas

Thu Sep 26

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Week 1 – Dataframes

Tue Oct 1

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

🎥 | Ch. 6, 6.1

Thu Oct 3

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

Fri Oct 4

LAB 1

Python, NumPy, and Pandas

PREP 1

Environment Setup, Exam Prep 1

Week 2 – Dataframes

Tue Oct 8

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

PROJ 1

Project 1 checkpoint

Thu Oct 10

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

Fri Oct 11

LAB 2

More Pandas

PREP 2

Exam Prep 2

Week 3 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing

Tue Oct 15

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Pre-lecture review, Ch. 17

PROJ 1

Project 1

Thu Oct 17

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

Fast Permutation Tests, A1, A2

Fri Oct 18

LAB 3

DataFrame Manipulation

PREP 3

Exam Prep 3

Week 4 – Missing Values

Tue Oct 22

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

PROJ 2

Project 2 checkpoint

Thu Oct 24

LEC 9

HTTP Basics

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Fri Oct 25

LAB 4

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

PREP 4

Exam Prep 4

Week 5 – HTTP

Mon Oct 28

EXAM

Midterm Exam (slots open between 10/28 and 11/02)

Tue Oct 29

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Ch. 14.2-14.4

PROJ 2

Project 2

Thu Oct 31

LEC 11

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Fri Nov 1

PREP 5

Exam Prep 5

Week 6 – Web data

Mon Nov 4

LAB 5

Missing Values and Imputation

Tue Nov 5

PROJ 3

Project 3 checkpoint

LEC 12

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

Thu Nov 7

LEC 13

Linear Regression

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Fri Nov 8

LAB 6

HTTP and HTML

PREP 6

Exam Prep 6

Week 7 – Text data, Modeling

Tue Nov 12

PROJ 3

Project 3

LEC 14

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

Thu Nov 14

LEC 15

Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization

Ch. 16, 17.6

Fri Nov 15

LAB 7

Regular Expressions and Text Data

PREP 7

Exam Prep 7

Week 8 – Feature Engineering

Tue Nov 19

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 1

LEC 16

Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees

Ch. 16

Thu Nov 21

LEC 17

Decision Trees and Random Forests

A1

Fri Nov 22

LAB 8

Modeling and Feature Engineering

PREP 8

Exam Prep 8

Week 9 – Modeling in Practice

Tue Nov 26

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 2

LEC 18

Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness

Ch. 16

Thu Nov 28

NO LECTURE: Thanksgiving break

Fri Nov 29

LAB 9

Pipelines

PREP 9

Exam Prep 9

Week 10 – Evaluating Classifiers

Tue Dec 3

LEC 19

Model Fairness, Review, Conclusion

Ch. 19.5

Thu Dec 5

LEC 20

Guest Lecture: LLMs (1:30pm-3:00pm in the HDSI MPR)

Week 11 – Final Exam and Final Project

Sat Dec 7

EXAM

Final Exam (11:30am-2:30pm in PODEM 1A18 and 1A19)

Tue Dec 10

FINAL PROJ

Final Project