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Principles of Data Science

DSC 10, Fall 2023 at UC San Diego

Welcome to DSC 10! πŸ‘‹ To get started:

  • Read the entire Syllabus and complete the actions in the Getting Started section.
  • Complete the pretest this weekend. We’ll release solutions on Monday.
  • Stop by the Meet the Professors mixer on Friday from 11:30AM-12:30PM in the patio of the HDSI Building – there’ll be free pizza! πŸ•

See you in lecture on Friday!

Rod Albuyeh

ralbuyeh@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MWF 8-8:50AM (D), Peterson 104

Suraj Rampure
he/him

rampure@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MWF 1-1:50PM (C), Mandeville B-210

Janine Tiefenbruck
she/her

jlobue@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MWF 9-9:50AM (B), 10-10:50AM (A), Mandeville B-210

Jump to the current week

Week 0 – Welcome to DSC 10!

Fri Sep 29

LEC 1 Introduction ✏️

CIT 1.0-1.3

SUR Welcome Survey

Week 1 – Python Basics

Mon Oct 2

LEC 2 Expressions and Data Types

BPD 1-6

Wed Oct 4

LEC 3 Strings, Lists, Arrays

BPD 7-8, CIT 14.1

DIS 1 Getting Started with Jupyter Notebooks and Python

Thu Oct 5

Lab 0 Expressions and Data Types

Fri Oct 6

LEC 4 Arrays and DataFrames

BPD 9-10

Week 2 – DataFrames and Visualization

Mon Oct 9

LEC 5 Querying and Grouping

BPD 10-11

Wed Oct 11

LEC 6 Data Visualization

CIT 7.0-7.1

DIS 2 Arrays and DataFrames

QUIZ 1 In Discussion, Covers Lectures 1-4

Thu Oct 12

Lab 1 Arrays and DataFrames

Fri Oct 13

LEC 7 Distributions and Histograms

CIT 7.2, 7.3

Sat Oct 14

HW 1 Basic Python, Arrays, and DataFrames

Week 3 – Functions and Control Flow

Mon Oct 16

LEC 8 Functions and Apply

BPD 6, 12

Wed Oct 18

LEC 9 Grouping on Multiple Columns, Merging

BPD 11, 13

DIS 3 Data Visualizations and Functions

Thu Oct 19

Lab 2 Data Visualizations and Functions

Fri Oct 20

LEC 10 Conditional Statements and Iteration

CIT 9.0-9.2

Sat Oct 21

HW 2 DataFrames, Data Visualization, and Functions

Week 4 – Probability and Simulation

Mon Oct 23

LEC 11 Probability

CIT 9.5

Wed Oct 25

LEC 12 Simulation

CIT 9.3-9.4

DIS 4 Grouping, Merging, and Control Flow

QUIZ 2 In Discussion, Covers Lectures 5-10

Thu Oct 26

Lab 3 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability

Fri Oct 27

LEC 13 Midterm Review

Sat Oct 28

HW 3 DataFrames, Control Flow, and Probability

Week 5 – Midterm Exam

Mon Oct 30

EXAM Midterm Exam (in registered lecture section)

Wed Nov 1

LEC 14 Distribution and Sampling

CIT 10.0-10.4

DIS 5 Probability and Simulation

Fri Nov 3

LEC 15 Bootstrapping and Percentiles

CIT 13.0-13.2

Sat Nov 4

PROJ Midterm Project (see partner guidelines)

Week 6 – Confidence Intervals and the Normal Distribution

Mon Nov 6

LEC 16 Confidence Intervals

CIT 13.3-13.4

Wed Nov 8

LEC 17 Variability and the Normal Distribution

CIT 14.2-14.3

DIS 6 Bootstrapping and Confidence Intervals

Thu Nov 9

Lab 4 Simulation, Sampling, Bootstrapping

Fri Nov 10

No Lecture (Veterans Day πŸŽ–οΈ)

Sat Oct 28

HW 4 Simulation, Sampling, Bootstrapping

Week 7 – Central Limit Theorem

Mon Nov 13

LEC 18 Central Limit Theorem

CIT 14.4-14.5

Wed Nov 15

LEC 19 Central Limit Theorem, Sample Size

CIT 14.6

DIS 7 Sampling and Bootstrapping

QUIZ 3 In Discussion, Covers Lectures 11-12 and 14-15

Fri Nov 17

LEC 20 Models

CIT 11.1

Sat Nov 18

Lab 5 Variability and the Normal Distribution

Week 8 – Hypothesis and Permutation Testing

Mon Nov 20

LEC 21 Hypothesis Testing

CIT 11.2-11.4

Tue Nov 21

HW 5 The Normal Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem

Wed Nov 22

LEC 22 TVD, Permutation Testing

CIT 12.0-12.1

DIS 8 Central Limit Theorem and Hypothesis Testing

Fri Nov 24

No Lecture (Thanksgiving πŸ¦ƒ)

Week 9 – Prediction

Mon Nov 27

LEC 23 Permutation Testing

CIT 12.3

Lab 6 Hypothesis Testing

Wed Nov 29

LEC 24 Correlation

CIT 15.0-15.2

DIS 9 Hypothesis Testing

QUIZ 4 In Discussion, Covers Lectures 16-22

Fri Dec 1

LEC 25 Regression, Least Squares

CIT 15.2-15.4

HW 6 Hypothesis Testing and Permutation Testing

Week 10 – Review

Mon Dec 4

LEC 26 Residuals & Inference

CIT 15.5-16.3

Tue Dec 5

PROJ Final Project (see partner guidelines)

Wed Dec 6

LEC 27 Review

DIS 10 Regression

Thu Dec 7

Lab 7 Regression

Fri Dec 8

LEC 28 Review, Conclusion

Sat Dec 9

EXAM Final Exam (7-10PM, location TBD)

SUR End-of-Quarter Survey and Evaluations (due 8AM)