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Introduction to Data Science

Cogs 9 at UC San Diego 👋

Spring 2025

TBD

TUE & THUR 6:30PM - 7:50PM

Week 1 - Introduction to Data Science & Ethics
📘 Read Introduction to Data Science (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Apr 1

LEC 1 What is DS

HW Assignment 1 Released (due Apr 10, 11:59 pm)

QUIZ Reading Quiz 1 Released (due Apr 10, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Apr 2

DISC NO Discussion Section - CANCELED

🧑‍🏫  Thu Apr 3

LEC 2 Ethics

Week 2 - Data Science Questions & Reproducibility
🍿 Watch Data Science in Practice (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Apr 8

LEC 3 DS Questions

🧑‍🏫  Wed Apr 9

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu Apr 10

LEC 4 Reproducibility & Bias

HW Assignment 1 Due

QUIZ Reading Quiz 1 Due

Week 3 - Data Fundamentals & Collection
📘 Read Data Collection Methods (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Apr 15

LEC 5 Data (Redo Databases Portion)

HW Assignment 2 Released (due Apr 24, 11:59 pm)

QUIZ Reading Quiz 3 Released (due Apr 24, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Apr 16

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu Apr 17

LEC 6 Data Collection

QUIZ Reading Quiz 2 Due

Week 4 - Data Wrangling & Visualization
🍿 Watch Data Visualization Techniques (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Apr 22

LEC 7 Data Wrangling

QUIZ Reading Quiz 4 Released (due May 1, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Apr 23

DISC Discussion Section - Form Project Groups (3-4 people/team)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Apr 24

LEC 8 Data Visualization

HW Assignment 2 Due

QUIZ Reading Quiz 3 Due

Week 5 - Exploratory Data Analysis & Communication
📘 Read Exploratory Data Analysis (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Apr 29

LEC 9 EDA

QUIZ Reading Quiz 5 Released (due May 22, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Apr 30

DISC Discussion Section - Project Teams

🧑‍🏫  Thu May 1

LEC 10 Communicating

QUIZ Reading Quiz 4 Due

PROJECT Group Project Topics Due

Week 6 - Inferential Analysis & Data Literacy
🍿 Watch Statistical Inference in Data Science (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue May 6

LEC 11 Inferential Analysis

HW Assignment 3 Released (due May 22, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed May 7

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu May 8

LEC 12 Data Literacy and Calling Bullshit

Week 7 - Machine Learning Fundamentals & Applications
📘 Read Introduction to Machine Learning (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue May 13

LEC 13 Machine Learning (Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning Reinforcement & Deep Learning)

🧑‍🏫  Wed May 14

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu May 15

LEC 14 Machine Learning (Demo code)

PROJECT Project P1 Due

Week 8 - Specialized Data Types & Industry Perspectives
🍿 Watch Text and Geospatial Data Analysis (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue May 20

LEC 15 Text/Geospatial Data

🧑‍🏫  Wed May 21

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu May 22

LEC 16 Data Science Talk

QUIZ Reading Quiz 5 Due

HW Assignment 3 Due

Week 9 - Guest Lectures & Industry Insights
📘 Read Data Science in Industry (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue May 27

LEC 17 Guest Lecture I

🧑‍🏫  Wed May 28

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu May 29

LEC 18 Guest Lecture II (Ahmed & Jiesen)

Week 10 - Modern AI Applications & Future of Data Science
🍿 Watch The Future of Data Science (TBD).

🧑‍🏫  Tue Jun 3

LEC 19 LLMs chatgpt etc demos

PROJECT Project P2/Video Due (7 min video)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Jun 4

DISC Discussion Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu Jun 5

LEC 20 Future of DS in 2025 beyond

PROJECT Project Report Due (~10 pages)