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DSC 10

Principles of Data Science

DSC 10, Summer 2025 at UC San Diego

Samantha (Sam) Chen
she/her/hers

sac003@ucsd.edu

Lecture: MTWF 9:30AM-10:50AM

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Week 1 – Python Basics and Introduction to DataFrames

Mon Jun 30

LEC 1 Introduction, Expressions, and Data Types      

CIT 1.0-1.3, BPD 1-6

Keywords: data science, course structure, policies, syllabus, Little Women demo, variables, assignments, ints, floats
Tue Jul 1

LEC 2 Strings, String Methods, Lists, and Arrays      

BPD 8-9

Keywords: strings, lists, arrays

SUR Welcome Survey

Wed Jul 2

LEC 3 DataFrames, Indexing, Queries, Intro to Grouping      

Thu Jul 3

LAB 0 Expressions and Data Types

Fri Jul 4

No Lecture (Fourth of July 🎆)

Sun Jul 6

LAB 1 Arrays and DataFrames

Week 2 – Data Visualization and Probability

Mon Jul 7

LEC 4 Data Visualization and Distributions      

QUIZ 1 Quiz 1 covers Lectures 1-3

HW 1 Basic Python, Arrays, and DataFrames

Tue Jul 8

LEC 5, part 1 Histograms and Distributions      

LEC 5, part 2 Functions   

Wed Jul 9

LEC 6, Part 1 Applying      

LEC 6, Part 2 Grouping on Multiple Columns, Merging   

LAB 2 Data Visualizations and Python Functions

Fri Jul 11

LEC 7, part 1 Conditional Statements and Iteration   

LEC 7, part 2 Probability   

HW 2 DataFrames, Data Visualization, and Functions

Week 3 – Simulation, Sampling, Confidence Intervals, Midterm

Mon Jul 14

LEC 8 Simulation      

QUIZ 2 Quiz 2 covers Lectures 4-7

Tue Jul 15

LEC 9 Distributions, Sampling, and Bootstrapping      

LAB 3 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability

Wed Jul 16

LEC 10, part 1 Bootstrapping Continued, Confidence Intervals      

LEC 10, part 2 Confidence Intervals, Center, and Spread   

HW 3 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability

Fri Jul 18

EXAM Midterm Exam covers Lectures 1-8   

LAB 4 Simulation, Sampling, Bootstrapping

Week 4 – The Normal Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, Hypothesis Testing

Mon Jul 21

LEC 11 Standardization and the Normal Distribution, Introduction to the Central Limit Theorem   

QUIZ 3 Quiz 3 covers Lectures 8-10

HW 4 Simulation, Sampling, and Bootstrapping

Tue Jul 22

LEC 12, Part 1 Central Limit Theorem Continued

LEC 12, Part 2 Sample Sizes and Statistical Models

LAB 5 Variability and the Normal Distribution

Wed Jul 23

LEC 13 Hypothesis Testing

Fri Jul 25

LEC 14, Part 1 Total Variation Distance

LEC 14, Part 2 Permutation Testing

HW 5 The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

Week 5 – Simulation, Sampling, and Confidence Intervals

Mon Jul 28

LEC 15, Part 1 Permutation Testing Continued

LEC 15, Part 2 Correlation

QUIZ 4 Quiz 4 covers Lectures 12-15

LAB 6 Hypothesis Testing

Tue Jul 29

LEC 16 Correlation Continued, Regression, and Least Squares

Wed Jul 30

LEC 17 Residuals and Inference

LAB 7 Regression

Hw 6 Hypothesis Testing and Permutation Testing

Fri Aug 1

LEC 18 Final Review

Sat Aug 2

EXAM Final Exam (8AM to 11AM)

PROJ Final Project