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DSC 80

Practice and Application of Data Science

DSC 80, Spring 2026 at UC San Diego

Tauhidur Rahman
he/him

trahman@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): TuTh 9:30AM-10:50AM in PCYNH 106.

Discussion: F 5:00PM-5:50PM in YORK 2622.

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Week 1 – Dataframes

Tue Mar 31

LEC 1

Introduction, Data Science Lifecycle

Ch. 1

Thu Apr 2

LEC 2

DataFrame Fundamentals

Ch. 6, 6.1

Week 2 – Dataframes

Tue Apr 7

LEC 3

Aggregating

Ch. 6.2

Wed Apr 8

LAB 1

Python, NumPy, and Pandas

Thu Apr 9

LEC 4

Simpson's Paradox, Joining, Transforming

Ch. 6.3-6.5

Fri Apr 10

PROJ 1

Project 1 checkpoint

Week 3 – Messy Data, Statistical Testing

Tue Apr 14

LEC 5

Exploring and Cleaning Data

Ch. 9 and 10

Wed Apr 15

LAB 2

More Pandas

Thu Apr 16

LEC 6

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Fri Apr 17

PROJ 1

Project 1

Week 4 – Missing Values

Tue Apr 21

LEC 7

Missingness Mechanisms

A1, A2

Wed Apr 22

LAB 3

DataFrame Manipulation

Thu Apr 23

LEC 8

Imputation

DSP 6.3-6.5

Fri Apr 24

PROJ 2

Project 2 checkpoint

Week 5 – HTTP

Tue Apr 28

LEC 9

HTTP Basics

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Wed Apr 29

LAB 4

Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Ch. 17

Thu Apr 30

LEC 10

Web Scraping

Ch. 14.2-14.4

Fri May 1

PROJ 2

Project 2

Week 6 – Web data

Tue May 5

EXAM

Midterm Exam

Wed May 6

LAB 5

Missing Values and Imputation

Thu May 7

LEC 11

Regular Expressions

Ch. 13

Fri May 8

PROJ 3

Project 3 checkpoint

Week 7 – Text data, Modeling

Tue May 12

LEC 12

Text Features

Ch. 13.4

Wed May 13

LAB 6

HTTP and HTML

Thu May 14

LEC 13

Linear Regression

Ch. 15.0-15.6

Fri May 15

PROJ 3

Project 3

Week 8 – Feature Engineering

Tue May 19

LEC 14

Feature Engineering

Ch. 15.7-15.9

Wed May 20

LAB 7

Regular Expressions and Text Data

Thu May 21

LEC 15

Standardization, Multicollinearity, and Generalization

Ch. 16, 17.6

Fri May 22

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 1

Week 9 – Modeling in Practice

Tue May 26

LEC 16

Hyperparameters, Cross-Validation, and Decision Trees

Ch. 16

Wed May 27

LAB 8

Modeling and Feature Engineering

Thu May 28

LEC 17

Decision Trees and Random Forests

A1

Fri May 29

FINAL PROJ

Final Project Checkpoint 2

Week 10 – Evaluating Classifiers

Tue Jun 2

LEC 18

Classifier Evaluation and Model Fairness

Ch. 16

Wed Jun 3

LAB 9

Pipelines

Thu Jun 4

LEC 19

Review, Conclusion

Ch. 19.5

Fri Jun 5

FINAL PROJ

Final Project

Week 11 – Final Exam

Tue Jun 9

EXAM

Final Exam