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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Winter 2023 at UC San Diego

Suraj Rampure

Suraj Rampure

he/him

rampure@ucsd.edu

Lecture: MWF 12-12:50PM, Mosaic Hall 114

As you start to study for the Midterm Exam, make sure to check out past exams at practice.dsc80.com and the other resources linked here.

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Week 1 – From BabyPandas to Pandas

Jan 9

LEC 1 Introduction

🎥 • Ch. 1

Jan 11

LEC 2 DataFrame Fundamentals

🎥 • Ch. 2, Ed

Jan 13

LEC 3 More DataFrame Fundamentals

🎥 • Ch. 2, 3

Week 2 – DataFrames

Jan 16

N/A (MLK Day)

Jan 18

LEC 4 Grouping

🎥 • Ch. 5.1

Lab 1 Python, NumPy, and Pandas (due 1/18 at 4PM, no slip days)

SUR Welcome Survey (due 1/18)

DIS 1 Lab 1 Reflection (due 1/21)

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Jan 19

PROJ 1 Gradebook 💯 (Checkpoint due 1/19)

Jan 20

LEC 5 Pivoting and Simpson’s Paradox

🎥 • Ch. 5.2

Week 3 – Messy Data

Jan 23

LEC 6 Concatenating and Merging

🎥 • Ch. 5.3-5.4

                   The audio in the podcast died; refer to the podcast from Spring 2022.

Lab 2 More Pandas (due 1/23)

Jan 25

LEC 7 Relational Algebra, Data Cleaning

🎥 • Ch. 4

DIS 2 Lab 2 Reflection (due 1/28)

🎥

Jan 26

PROJ 1 Gradebook 💯 (due 1/26)

Jan 27

LEC 8 Unfaithful Data, Hypothesis Testing

🎥 • CIT 11

Week 4 – Statistical Testing and Missing Values

Jan 30

LEC 9 Hypothesis Testing

🎥 • CIT 11

Lab 3 Grouping, Pivoting, and Combining (due 1/30)

SUR Week 3 Feedback Survey (optional, due 1/30)

Feb 1

LEC 10 Permutation Testing

🎥 • 5.5, CIT 12

DIS 3 Lab 3 Reflection (due 2/4)

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Feb 2

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (Checkpoint due 2/2)

Feb 3

LEC 11 Permutation Testing, Missingness Mechanisms

🎥 • Ch. 6.1-6.2

                   Extra notebook on fast permutation tests

Week 5 – Missingness Mechanisms and Imputation

Feb 6

LEC 12 Identifying Missingness Mechanisms

🎥 • Ch. 6.3-6.5

                   Extra notebook with more missingness examples

Lab 4 Hypothesis and Permutation Testing (due 2/6)

Feb 8

LEC 13 Imputation

Ch. 7.1-7.2

DIS 4 Lab 4 Reflection (due 2/11)

Feb 9

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (due 2/9)

Feb 10

LEC 14 HTTP Basics

Ch. 7.1-7.2

Week 6 – HTTP and HTML, Midterm Exam

Feb 13

LEC 15 Requests and JSON

Ch. 7.1-7.2

Lab 5 Missing Values and Imputation (due 2/13)

Feb 15

Exam Midterm Exam (in-person during lecture)

DIS 5 Lab 5 Reflection (due 2/18)

Feb 17

LEC 16 Web Scraping and Parsing HTML

Ch. 7.3

Week 7 - Text Data

Feb 20

N/A (Presidents’ Day)

Feb 22

LEC 17 Regular Expressions

Ch. 8.1-8.2

Lab 6 HTTP and HTML (due 2/22 at 4PM, no slip days)

DIS 6 Lab 6 Reflection (due 2/25)

Feb 23

PROJ 3 Exploratory Data Analysis 📊 (due 2/23)

Feb 24

LEC 18 Text Features

Ch. 8.1-8.2

Week 8 – Modeling and Feature Engineering

Feb 27

LEC 19 Text Features, Continued

Ch. 9.2

Lab 7 Regular Expressions and Text Data (due 2/27)

Mar 1

LEC 20 Modeling and Regression

Ch. 10.1

DIS 7 Lab 7 Reflection (due 3/4)

Mar 2

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (Checkpoint due 3/2)

Mar 3

LEC 21 Feature Engineering

Ch. 9.1

Week 9 – sklearn

Mar 6

LEC 22 Modeling in sklearn

Ch. 9.2

Lab 8 Modeling and Feature Engineering (due 3/6)

Mar 8

LEC 23 sklearn Pipelines, Regression Evaluation

Ch. 9.2, Ch. 10.2

DIS 8 Lab 8 Reflection (due 3/11)

Mar 9

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (due 3/9)

Mar 10

LEC 24 Cross Validation

Ch. 11.1-11.2

Week 10 – Model Evaluation and Fairness

Mar 13

LEC 25 Decision Trees, Grid Search, and Multicollinearity

Ch. 11.1-11.2

Lab 9 Pipelines (due 3/13)

Mar 15

LEC 26 Classifier Evaluation, Fairness Criteria

DIS 9 Lab 9 Reflection (due 3/18)

Mar 17

LEC 27 Fairness Criteria, Conclusion

Week 11 – Final Exam and Project 5

Mar 22

EXAM Final Exam (11:30AM-2:30PM, in-person, location TBD)

Mar 23

PROJ 5 Model Building 🛠 (due 3/24, no slip days)