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Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Summer 2025 at UC San Diego

Bivin Sadler
he/him

bisadler@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MW 11:00AM–1:50PM in WLH 2115.

Discussion: M 4:00PM–5:50PM in WLH 2205.

Lecture Recordings Welcome Survey Extension Request Form Exam Accommodations Form Office Hours

Week 1.1 – Dataframes

Mon Aug 4

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Mon Aug 4

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

Ch. 6, 6.1

Week 1.2 – Dataframes

Wed Aug 6

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

Wed Aug 6

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Fri Aug 8

LAB 1

Week 2.1 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing

Mon Aug 11

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

Mon Aug 11

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Wed Aug 13

LAB 2

More Pandas - Extended Deadline

TBD

Discussion 2

Week 2.2 – Missing Values

Wed Aug 13

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

A1, A2

Wed Aug 13

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

Thu Aug 14

LAB 3

Sat Aug 16

PROJ 1

Week 3.1 – HTTP

Mon Aug 18

LEC 8

Imputation Cont ... In class and Online

Mon Aug 18

LEC 9

HTTP Basics ... In class and Online

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Tue Aug 19

LAB 4

Ch. 17

Tue Aug 19

LAB 5

Week 3.2 – Text Data

Wed Aug 20

EXAM

Midterm Exam

Winter 2025 Study Deck

Thu May 8

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Thu Aug 21

LAB 6

Sat Aug 23

PROJ 2

Week 4.1 – Regular Expressions, Modeling

Mon Aug 25

LEC 11

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Mon Aug 25

LEC 12

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

Tue Aug 26

LAB 7

Regular Expressions and Text Data

Week 8 – Feature Engineering

Wed Aug 27

LEC 13

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Thu Aug 28

LAB 8

Regular Expressions and Text Data

Wed Aug 27

LEC 14

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

Sat Aug 30

PROJ 3

Project 3