Principles of Data Science
DSC 10, Summer 2025 at UC San Diego

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Week 1 – Python Basics and Introduction to DataFrames
- Mon Jun 30
LEC 1 Introduction, Expressions, and Data Types
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
Keywords: strings, lists, arraysSUR Welcome Survey
- Wed Jul 2
- Thu Jul 3
- Fri Jul 4
No Lecture (Fourth of July 🎆)
- Sun Jul 6
LAB 1 Arrays and DataFrames
Week 2 – Data Visualization and Probability
Week 3 – Simulation, Sampling, Confidence Intervals, Midterm
- Mon Jul 14
LEC 8 Simulation, Distributions and Sampling
QUIZ 2 Quiz 2 covers Lectures 4-7
- Tue Jul 15
LEC 9 Distributions and Sampling Continued, Bootstrapping and Confidence
- Wed Jul 16
LEC 10 Confidence Intervals, Center and Spread, Midterm Review
- Thu Jul 17
- Fri Jul 18
EXAM Midterm Exam covers Lectures 1-8
Week 4 – The Normal Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, Hypothesis Testing
- Mon Jul 21
LEC 12 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 13 Central Limit Theorem Continued, Sample Sizes and Statistical Models
LAB 5 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability
- Wed Jul 23
LEC 14 Hypothesis Testing
- Fri Jul 25
LEC 15 Total Variation Distance and Permutation Testing
HW 5 The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
Week 5 – Simulation, Sampling, and Confidence Intervals
- Mon Jul 28
LEC 16 Permutation Testing Continued, Correlation
QUIZ 4 Quiz 3 covers Lectures 12-15
LAB 6 Hypothesis Testing
- Tue Jul 29
LEC 17 Correlation Continued, Regression, and Least Squares
- Wed Jul 30
LEC 18 Residuals and Inference
LAB 7 Regression
Hw 6 Hypothesis Testing and Permutation Testing
- Fri Aug 1
LEC 19 Final Review
- Sat Aug 2
EXAM Final Exam (8AM to 11AM)