Practice and Application of Data Science
DSC 80, Fall 2023 at UC San Diego

Oct 10, 2023: Our lecture and discussion rooms have changed! Our lectures are now in WLH 2005 and our discussions in CENTR 115 for the rest of the quarter.
Week 1 β From BabyPandas to Pandas
- Tue Oct 3
- Thu Oct 5
LEC 2 DataFrame Fundamentals
- Fri Oct 6
DISC 1 Environment Setup
Week 2 β Dataframes
- Mon Oct 9
- Tue Oct 10
LEC 3 Aggregating
- Wed Oct 11
PROJ 1 Project 1 checkpoint
- Thu Oct 12
- Fri Oct 13
DISC 2 Lab 1 Reflection
Week 3 β Messy Data, Statistical Testing
- Mon Oct 16
LAB 2 More Pandas
- Tue Oct 17
- Wed Oct 18
PROJ 1 Project 1
- Thu Oct 19
LEC 6 Hypothesis Testing
π₯ | Ch 2, Ch 17.0-17.2
- Fri Oct 20
DISC 3 Lab 2 Reflection
Week 4 β Missing Values
- Mon Oct 23
LAB 3 DataFrame Manipulation
- Tue Oct 24
LEC 7 Missingness Mechanisms
- Wed Oct 25
PROJ 2 Project 2 checkpoint
- Thu Oct 26
LEC 8 Imputation
- Fri Oct 27
DISC 4 Lab 3 Reflection
Week 5 β HTTP
- Mon Oct 30
- Tue Oct 31
- Wed Nov 1
PROJ 2 Project 2
- Thu Nov 2
- Fri Nov 3
DISC 5 Lab 4 Reflection
Week 6 β Web data
- Mon Nov 6
- Tue Nov 7
LEC 10 Web Scraping
- Thu Nov 9
LEC 11 Regular Expressions
- Fri Nov 10
NO DISCUSSION: Veteranβs Day
Week 7 β Text data, Modeling
- Mon Nov 13
LAB 6 HTTP and HTML
- Tue Nov 14
LEC 12 Text Features
- Thu Nov 16
LEC 13 Modeling and Regression
- Fri Nov 17
DISC 6 Lab 6 Reflection
PROJ 3 Project 3 (no checkpoint)
Week 8 β Feature Engineering
- Mon Nov 20
- Tue Nov 21
LEC 14 Feature Engineering
- Wed Nov 22
- Thu Nov 23
NO LECTURE: Thanksgiving break
- Fri Nov 24
NO DISCUSSION: Thanksgiving break
Week 9 β Modeling in Practice
- Mon Nov 27
- Tue Nov 28
- Thu Nov 30
- Fri Dec 1
DISC 7 Lab 8 Reflection
PROJ 4 Project 4
Week 10 β Evaluating Classifiers
- Mon Dec 4
LAB 9 Pipelines
- Tue Dec 5
LEC 17 Decision Trees, Grid Search, Multicollinearity
- Thu Dec 7
LEC 18 Classifier Evaluation, Fairness Criteria, Conclusion
- Fri Dec 8
DISC 8 Lab 9 Reflection
Week 11 β Final Exam and Project 5
- Mon Dec 11
EXAM Final Exam (3-6pm, WLH 2005)
- Wed Dec 13
PROJ 5 Project 5