Practice and Application of Data Science
DSC 80, Summer 2026 at UC San Diego
The Midterm Exam is this Wednesday, August 19th from 2-3:50 PM. This document has important information and instructions you should be aware of! We’ll have a trial run on Monday after lecture so you can make sure you are comfortable with the exam-taking process.
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Week 1 – From BabyPandas to Pandas / DataFrames
- Mon Aug 3
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LEC 1
- Tue Aug 4
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LEC 2
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LAB 1
- Wed Aug 5
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LEC 3
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PROJ 1
- Thu Aug 6
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LEC 4
- Fri Aug 7
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LAB 2
- Sat Aug 8
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PROJ 1
Week 3 – HTTP and HTML / Midterm, Regular Expressions
- Mon Aug 17
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LEC 9
HTTP Basics
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LAB 5
- Tue Aug 18
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LEC 10
Web Scraping
- Wed Aug 19
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LEC 11
Midterm Review
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EXAM
- Thu Aug 20
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LEC 12
Regular Expressions
- Fri Aug 21
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LAB 6
- Sat Aug 22
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LAB 7
Regular Expressions
Week 4 – Text and Modeling / Feature Engineering
- Mon Aug 24
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LEC 13
Text Features
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PROJ 3
Checkpoint - Language Models 🗣
- Tue Aug 25
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LEC 14
Linear Regression
- Wed Aug 26
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LEC 15
Feature Engineering
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PROJ 3
Language Models 🗣
- Thu Aug 27
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LEC 16
Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization
- Fri Aug 28
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PROJ 4
Checkpoint 1 - Data Science Lifecycle 🔁
- Sat Aug 29
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LAB 8
Feature Engineering
Week 5 – Modeling in Practice / Evaluating Classifiers / Final Exam
- Mon Aug 31
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LEC 17
Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees
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LAB 9
Models and Pipelines
- Tue Sep 1
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LEC 18
Decision Trees and Random Forests
- Wed Sep 2
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LEC 19
Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness
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PROJ 4
Checkpoint 2 - Data Science Lifecycle 🔁
- Thu Sep 3
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LEC 20
Review, Conclusion
- Fri Sep 4
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EXAM
Final Exam
- Sat Sep 5
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PROJ 4
Data Science Lifecycle 🔁