Principles of Data Science 📊

DSC 10, Fall 2021 at UC San Diego

Janine Tiefenbruck
she/her

jlobue@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): A00 (MWF 10-10:50AM, RWAC 0121), B00 (MWF 11-11:50AM, RWAC 0121)

Suraj Rampure
he/him

rampure@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): C00 (MWF 9-9:50AM, CSB 001)

Zoom Links and Office Hours Schedule Podcasts

This schedule is subject to change.

Week 0 – Welcome to DSC 10! 👋

Sep 24

LEC 1 Introduction

CIT 1.2-1.3

Week 1

Sep 27

LEC 2 Association and Causality

CIT 2

DIS 1 In-Person Discussion

Sep 28

DIS 1 Remote Discussion

Sep 29

LEC 3 Expressions and Data Types

DDS 1.1-1.6

Oct 1

LEC 4 Arrays and DataFrames

DDS 2.1-2.2

Oct 2

LAB 1 Python Basics and Data Types (due 10/2)

HW 1 Causality and Basic Python (due 10/2)

Week 2

Oct 4

LEC 5 Accessing, Sorting, and Querying

DDS 2.3-2.4

DIS 2 In-Person Discussion

Oct 5

DIS 2 Remote Discussion

LAB 2 Arrays and DataFrames (due 10/5)

Oct 6

LEC 6 More Queries and GroupBy (extra video)

DDS 2.5

Oct 8

LEC 7 Data Visualization

DDS 3.1-3.4

Oct 9

HW 2 Arrays and DataFrames (due 10/9)

Week 3

Oct 11

LEC 8 Histograms and Overlaid Plots

DDS 3.1-3.4

DIS 3 In-Person Discussion

Oct 12

DIS 3 Remote Discussion

Oct 13

LEC 9 Functions and Apply

DDS 2.6

Oct 14

LAB 3 Data Visualization and Python Functions (due 10/14)

Oct 15

LEC 10 Grouping with Subgroups, Merge

DDS 2.5, 4.1

Oct 16

HW 3 Data Visualization and Python Functions (due 10/16)

Week 4

Oct 18

LEC 11 Booleans and Conditionals, Iteration

CIT 9.1-9.2

DIS 4 In-Person Discussion

Oct 19

DIS 4 Remote Discussion

Oct 20

LEC 12 Probability

DDS 5.1

Oct 21

LAB 4 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability (due 10/21)

Oct 22

LEC 13 Simulations and Sampling

DDS 5.1, 6.1

Oct 23

HW 4 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability (due 10/23)

Week 5

Oct 25

LEC 14 Sampling and Distributions

DDS 6.1-6.2

DIS 5 In-Person Discussion

Oct 26

DIS 5 Remote Discussion

Oct 27

Exam Midterm (remote, during scheduled lecture)

Oct 29

LEC 15 Models and Statistics

DDS 6.1-6.2

Oct 30

PROJ Midterm Project (due 10/30)

Week 6

Nov 1

LEC 16 Hypothesis Testing

DDS 7.1

DIS 6 In-Person Discussion

Nov 2

DIS 6 Remote Discussion

LAB 5 Simulation, Sampling, and Hypothesis Testing (due 11/2)

Nov 3

LEC 17 Hypothesis Testing, Permutation Testing

DDS 7.1-7.2

Nov 5

LEC 18 Permutation Testing

DDS 7.2

Nov 6

HW 5 Simulation, Sampling, and Hypothesis Testing (due 11/6)

Week 7

Nov 8

LEC 19 Bootstrapping

DDS 8.1

DIS 7 In-Person Discussion

Nov 9

DIS 7 Remote Discussion

LAB 6 Permutation Testing and Bootstrapping (due 11/9)

Nov 10

LEC 20 Confidence Intervals

DDS 8.2-8.3

Nov 12

LEC 21 Center and Spread

CIT 14.1-14.2

Nov 13

HW 6 Permutation Testing, Percentiles, and Bootstrapping (due 11/13)

Week 8

Nov 15

LEC 22 Normal Curve, Central Limit Theorem

CIT 13.3-13.4

DIS 8 In-Person Discussion

Nov 16

DIS 8 Remote Discussion

LAB 7 Why The Mean Matters in School Life (due 11/16)

Nov 17

LEC 23 Central Limit Theorem, Normal Confidence Intervals

CIT 13.4-13.5

Nov 19

LEC 24 Experiment Design

CIT 14.6

Nov 20

HW 7 Center, Spread, and Confidence Intervals (due 11/20)

Week 9

Nov 22

LEC 25 Prediction and Correlation

CIT 15.1-15.2

DIS 9 In-Person Discussion

Nov 23

DIS 9 Remote Discussion

Nov 24

LEC 26 Regression and Least Squares

CIT 15.2-15.3

Nov 26

N/A (Thanksgiving)

Nov 27

LAB 8 Regression (due 11/27)

Week 10

Nov 29

LEC 27 Residuals and Inference

CIT 15.5, 16

DIS 10 In-Person Discussion

Nov 30

DIS 10 Remote Discussion

Dec 1

LEC 28 Catch-Up/Review

PROJ Final Project (due 12/1)

Dec 3

LEC 29 Review

Dec 4

Exam Final Exam (11:30AM-2:30PM)