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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Fall 2026 at UC San Diego

Tauhidur Rahman
he/him

trahman@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): TuTh, 6:30pm–7:50pm in Franklin Antonio Hall (FAH) 1301.

Discussion: Fridays, 1:00–1:50pm. in Mosaic Room 0113.

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Week 0 – Introduction

Thu Sep 24

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Week 1 – Dataframes

Tue Sep 29

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

Ch. 6, 6.1

Thu Oct 1

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

Fri Oct 2

DISC

Discussion

Week 2 – Dataframes and Statistical Testing

Tue Oct 6

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Wed Oct 7

LAB 1

Python, NumPy, and Pandas

Thu Oct 8

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

Fri Oct 9

PROJ 1

Project 1 checkpoint

DISC

Discussion

Week 3 – Missing Values

Tue Oct 13

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Wed Oct 14

LAB 2

More Pandas

Thu Oct 15

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

A1, A2

Fri Oct 16

PROJ 1

Project 1

DISC

Discussion

Week 4 – Imputation and HTTP

Tue Oct 20

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

Wed Oct 21

LAB 3

DataFrame Manipulation

Thu Oct 22

LEC 9

HTTP Basics

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Fri Oct 23

PROJ 2

Project 2 checkpoint

DISC

Discussion

Week 5 – Web and Text Data

Tue Oct 27

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Wed Oct 28

LAB 4

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Thu Oct 29

LEC 11

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Fri Oct 30

PROJ 2

Project 2

DISC

Discussion

Week 6 – Midterm and Text Features

Nov 3

EXAM

Midterm Exam

In Class.

Wed Nov 4

LAB 5

Missing Values and Imputation

Thu Nov 5

LEC 12

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

Fri Nov 6

PROJ 3

Project 3 checkpoint

DISC

Discussion

Week 7 – Modeling and Feature Engineering

Tue Nov 10

LEC 13

Linear Regression

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Wed Nov 11

HOLIDAY

Veterans Day — no classes

Thu Nov 12

LEC 14

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

LAB 6

HTTP and HTML

Fri Nov 13

PROJ 3

Project 3

DISC

Discussion

Week 8 – Modeling in Practice

Tue Nov 17

LEC 15

Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization

Ch. 16, 17.6

Wed Nov 18

LAB 7

Regular Expressions and Text Data

Thu Nov 19

LEC 16

Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees

Ch. 16

Fri Nov 20

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 1

DISC

Discussion

Week 9 – Trees and Thanksgiving

Tue Nov 24

LEC 17

Decision Trees and Random Forests

Ch. 16

Wed Nov 25

LAB 8

Modeling and Feature Engineering

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 2

Thu Nov 26

HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving break — no classes

Fri Nov 27

HOLIDAY

Thanksgiving break — no classes

Week 10 – Evaluating Classifiers

Tue Dec 1

LEC 18

Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness

Ch. 16

Wed Dec 2

LAB 9

Pipelines

Thu Dec 3

LEC 19

Review, Conclusion

Materials TBD.

Ch. 19.5

Fri Dec 4

FINAL PROJ

Final Project

Week 11 – Final Exam

Dec 8

EXAM

Final Exam

7-10pm