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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Spring 2023 at UC San Diego

Tauhidur Rahman

Tauhidur Rahman

he/him

trahman@ucsd.edu

Lecture: MWF 12-12:50PM, Mandeville Auditorium B-210

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To view the lecture recordings, click on the 🎥 button for each lecture.

Week 1 – From BabyPandas to Pandas

Mon Apr 3

LEC 1 Introduction

🎥 / Ch. 1

Wed Apr 5

LEC 2 DataFrame Fundamentals

🎥 / Ch. 2

Fri Apr 7

LEC 3 More DataFrame Fundamentals

🎥 / Ch. 2, 3

Week 2 – DataFrames

Mon Apr 10

LEC 4 Grouping

🎥 / Ch. 5.1

Lab 1 Python, NumPy, and Pandas (due 4/10)

Wed Apr 12

LEC 5 Pivoting and Simpson’s Paradox

🎥 / Ch. 5.2

SUR Welcome Survey

DIS 1 Lab 1 Reflection

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Thu Apr 13

PROJ 1 Gradebook 💯 (Checkpoint due 4/13)

Fri Apr 14

LEC 6 Concatenating and Merging

🎥 / Ch. 5.3-5.4

Week 3 – Messy Data

Mon Apr 17

LEC 7 Relational Algebra, Data Cleaning

🎥 / Ch. 4

Lab 2 More Pandas (due 4/17)

Wed Apr 19

LEC 8 Unfaithful Data, Hypothesis Testing

🎥 / CIT 11

DIS 2 Lab 2 Reflection

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Thu Apr 20

PROJ 1 Gradebook 💯 (due 4/20)

Fri Apr 21

LEC 9 Hypothesis Testing

🎥 / CIT 11

Week 4 – Statistical Testing and Missing Values

Mon Apr 24

LEC 10 Permutation Testing

🎥 / 5.5, CIT 12

Lab 3 Grouping, Pivoting, and Combining (due 4/24)

Wed Apr 26

LEC 11 Permutation Testing, Missingness Mechanisms, Aside

🎥 / Ch. 6.1-6.2

DIS 3 Lab 3 Reflection

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Thu Apr 27

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (Checkpoint due 4/27)

Fri Apr 28

LEC 12 Identifying Missingness Mechanisms, Aside

🎥 / Ch. 6.3-6.5

Week 5 – Imputation and HTTP

Mon May 1

LEC 13 Imputation

🎥 / Ch. 6.3-6.5

Lab 4 Hypothesis and Permutation Testing (due 5/1)

Wed May 3

LEC 14 HTTP Basics

🎥 / Ch. 7.1-7.2

DIS 4 Lab 4 Reflection

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Thu May 4

PROJ 2 COVID Vaccinations 🦠 (due 5/4)

Fri May 5

Exam Midterm Exam (in-person during lecture)

Week 6 – HTTP, HTML, and Regex

Mon May 8

LEC 15 Requests and JSON

🎥 / Ch. 7.1-7.2

Lab 5 Missing Values and Imputation (due 5/8)

Wed May 10

LEC 16 Web Scraping and Parsing HTML

🎥 / Ch. 7.3

DIS 5 Lab 5 Reflection

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Fri May 12

LEC 17 Regular Expressions

🎥 / Ch. 8.1-8.2

Week 7 – Text Data

Mon May 15

LEC 18 Text Features

🎥 / Ch. 8.1-8.2

Lab 6 HTTP and HTML (due 5/15)

Wed May 17

LEC 19 Text Features, Continued

🎥 / Ch. 8.1-8.2

DIS 6 Lab 6 Reflection

🎥

Thu May 18

PROJ 3 Exploratory Data Analysis 📊 (due 5/18, no checkpoint)

Fri May 19

LEC 20Modeling and Regression

🎥 / Ch. 8.1-8.2

Week 8 – Modeling and Feature Engineering

Mon May 22

LEC 21 Feature Engineering

🎥 / Ch. 8.2

Lab 7 Regular Expressions and Text Data (due 5/22)

Wed May 24

LEC 22 Feature Engineering, continued

🎥 / Ch. 10.1

DIS 7 Lab 7 Reflection

Thu May 25

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (Checkpoint due 5/25)

Fri May 26

LEC 23 Modeling in sklearn

🎥 / Ch. 9.1, 11.1

Week 9 – sklearn Pipelines, Generalization, and Cross-Validation

Mon May 29

No Class (Memorial Day observance)

Wed May 31

LEC 24 sklearn Pipelines, Regression Evaluation

9.2, 10.2, 11.2

Lab 8 Modeling and Feature Engineering (due 5/31 at 4pm, no slipdays)

DIS 8 Lab 8 Reflection

Thu Jun 1

PROJ 4 Language Models 🗣 (due 6/1)

Fri Jun 2

LEC 25 Cross-Validation

🎥 / Ch. 11.2

Week 10 – Classifier Evaluation, Fairness Criteria

Mon Jun 5

LEC 26 Decision Trees, Grid Search, Multicollinearity

Lab 9 Pipelines (due 6/6 at 4pm)

Wed Jun 7

LEC 27 Classifier Evaluation, Fairness Criteria

DIS 9 Lab 9 Reflection

Fri Jun 9

LEC 28 Fairness Criteria, Conclusion

Week 11 – Final Exam and Project 5

Wed Jun 14

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

Thu Jun 15

PROJ 5 Model Building 🛠 (due 6/15, no slip days)