Practice and Application of Data Science
DSC 80, Spring 2024 at UC San Diego
Sam Lauhe/him
Lecture(s): TuTh 9:30-10:50AM (A00), 11:00AM-12:20PM (B00) in Peterson Hall 103
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Week 3 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing
- Tue Apr 16
LEC 5
- Wed Apr 17
LAB 2
- Thu Apr 18
LEC 6
- Fri Apr 19
PROJ 1
Project 1
DISC 3
Exam Prep 3
Week 4 – Missing Values
- Tue Apr 23
LEC 7
Missingness Mechanisms
- Wed Apr 24
LAB 3
- Thu Apr 25
LEC 8
Imputation
- Fri Apr 26
PROJ 2
Project 2 checkpoint
DISC 4
Exam Prep 4
Week 5 – HTTP
- Tue Apr 30
LEC 9
HTTP Basics
- Wed May 1
LAB 4
Hypothesis and Permutation Testing
- Thu May 2
EXAM
Midterm Exam (in class)
- Fri May 3
PROJ 2
Project 2
DISC 5
Exam Prep 5
Week 6 – Web data
- Mon May 6
LAB 5
Missing Values and Imputation
- Tue May 7
LEC 10
Web Scraping
- Thu May 9
LEC 11
Regular Expressions
- Fri May 10
DISC 6
Exam Prep 6
PROJ 3
Project 3 checkpoint
Week 7 – Text data, Modeling
- Tue May 14
LEC 12
Text Features
- Wed May 15
LAB 6
HTTP and HTML
- Thu May 16
LEC 13
Linear Regression
- Fri May 17
PROJ 3
Project 3
DISC 7
Exam Prep 7
Week 8 – Feature Engineering
- Tue May 21
LEC 14
Feature Engineering
- Wed May 22
LAB 7
Regular Expressions and Text Data
- Thu May 23
LEC 15
Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization
- Fri May 24
DISC 8
Exam Prep 8
FINAL PROJ
Final Project Checkpoint 1
Week 9 – Modeling in Practice
- Tue May 28
LEC 16
Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees
- Wed May 29
LAB 8
Modeling and Feature Engineering
- Thu May 30
LEC 17
Decision Trees and Random Forests
- Fri May 31
DISC 9
Exam Prep 9
FINAL PROJ
Final Project Checkpoint 2