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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Winter 2025 at UC San Diego

Duncan Watson-Parris
he/him

dwatsonparris@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): TuTh 11:00AM-12:20PM in SOLIS 104.

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Week 1 – Dataframes

Tue Jan 7

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Thu Jan 9

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

Ch. 6, 6.1

Week 2 – Dataframes

Tue Jan 14

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

Wed Jan 15

LAB 1

Python, NumPy, and Pandas

Thu Jan 16

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Fri Jan 17

PROJ 1

Project 1 checkpoint

Week 3 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing

Tue Jan 21

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

Wed Jan 22

LAB 2

More Pandas

Thu Jan 23

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Fri Jan 24

PROJ 1

Project 1

Week 4 – Missing Values

Tue Jan 28

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

A1, A2

Wed Jan 29

LAB 3

DataFrame Manipulation

Thu Jan 30

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

Fri Jan 31

PROJ 2

Project 2 checkpoint

Week 5 – HTTP

Tue Feb 4

LEC 9

HTTP Basics

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Wed Feb 5

LAB 4

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Thu Feb 6

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Fri Feb 7

PROJ 2

Project 2

Week 6 – Web data

Mon Feb 10

DISC

Midterm Review

Zoom

Tue Feb 11

EXAM

Midterm Exam

Wed Feb 12

LAB 5

Missing Values and Imputation

Thu Feb 13

LEC 11

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Fri Feb 14

PROJ 3

Project 3 checkpoint

Week 7 – Text data, Modeling

Tue Feb 18

LEC 12

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

Wed Feb 19

LAB 6

HTTP and HTML

Thu Feb 20

LEC 13

Linear Regression

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Fri Feb 21

PROJ 3

Project 3

Week 8 – Feature Engineering

Tue Feb 25

LEC 14

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

Wed Feb 26

LAB 7

Regular Expressions and Text Data

Thu Feb 27

LEC 15

Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization

Ch. 16, 17.6

Fri Feb 28

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 1

Week 9 – Modeling in Practice

Tue Mar 4

LEC 16

Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees

Ch. 16

Wed Mar 5

LAB 8

Modeling and Feature Engineering

Thu Mar 6

LEC 17

Decision Trees and Random Forests

A1

Fri Mar 7

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 2

Week 10 – Evaluating Classifiers

Tue Mar 11

LEC 18

Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness

Ch. 16

Wed Mar 12

LAB 9

Pipelines

Thu Mar 13

LEC 19

Review, Conclusion

Ch. 19.5

Fri Mar 14

FINAL PROJ

Final Project

Week 11 – Final Exam and Project 5

Thu Mar 20

EXAM

Final Exam