Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Summer 2026 at UC San Diego

Janine Tiefenbruck

she/her

jlobue@ucsd.edu

Lecture: Monday-Thursday 9:30-10:50AM on Zoom

Welcome to DSC 80! Make sure to read this website thoroughly and complete the items in the Getting Started section of the syllabus. To join remote lecture, click the Zoom link from within Canvas.

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Week 1 – From BabyPandas to Pandas / DataFrames

Mon Aug 3

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Tue Aug 4

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

Ch. 6, 6.1

LAB 1

Python, NumPy, and Pandas

Wed Aug 5

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

PROJ 1

Checkpoint - Gradebook 💯

Thu Aug 6

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Fri Aug 7

LAB 2

DataFrames and Grouping

Sat Aug 8

PROJ 1

Gradebook 💯

Week 2 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing / Missing Values

Mon Aug 10

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

LAB 3

Merging and Pivoting

Tue Aug 11

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Wed Aug 12

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

A1, A2

PROJ 2

Checkpoint - Loans 💸

Thu Aug 13

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

Fri Aug 14

LAB 4

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Sat Aug 15

PROJ 2

Loans 💸

Week 3 – HTTP and HTML / Midterm, Regular Expressions

Mon Aug 17

LEC 9

HTTP Basics

Ch. 14.2-14.4

LAB 5

Missing Values and Imputation

Tue Aug 18

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Wed Aug 19

LEC 11

Midterm Review

EXAM

Midterm Exam

Thu Aug 20

LEC 12

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Fri Aug 21

LAB 6

APIs and Web Scraping

Sat Aug 22

LAB 7

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Week 4 – Text and Modeling / Feature Engineering

Mon Aug 24

LEC 13

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

PROJ 3

Checkpoint - Language Models 🗣

Tue Aug 25

LEC 14

Linear Regression

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Wed Aug 26

LEC 15

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

PROJ 3

Language Models 🗣

Thu Aug 27

LEC 16

Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization

Ch. 16, 17.6

Fri Aug 28

PROJ 4

Checkpoint 1 - Data Science Lifecycle 🔁

Sat Aug 29

LAB 8

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

Week 5 – Modeling in Practice / Evaluating Classifiers / Final Exam

Mon Aug 31

LEC 17

Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees

Ch. 16

LAB 9

Models and Pipelines

Tue Sep 1

LEC 18

Decision Trees and Random Forests

A1

Wed Sep 2

LEC 19

Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness

Ch. 16

PROJ 4

Checkpoint 2 - Data Science Lifecycle 🔁

Thu Sep 3

LEC 20

Review, Conclusion

Ch. 19.5

Fri Sep 4

EXAM

Final Exam

Sat Sep 5

PROJ 4

Data Science Lifecycle 🔁