Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I
DSC 40A, Spring 2024 at UC San Diego
Suraj Rampurehe/him
Lecture(s): TuTh 12:30-1:50PM (A), 2-3:20PM (B), Center Hall 212
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Congrats on finishing the Midterm Exam! Homework 5 will be released later this week and will be due on Thursday, May 16th. Most office hours on Wednesday (the day after the Midterm Exam) are cancelled.
Week 1 – Modeling and Loss Functions
📘 Read Note 1, Pages 1-12.
- Tue Apr 2
LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling
SUR Welcome Survey
- Thu Apr 4
LEC 2 Empirical Risk Minimization
Week 2 – Simple Linear Regression
📘 Read the spread notes and Note 2, Pages 1-7.
Week 3 – Linear Algebra Review
📘 Read Note 2, Pages 7-13 and take a look at the Week 2 Lecture FAQs.
Week 4 – Regression and Linear Algebra
📘 Read Note 2, Pages 10-19.
Week 5 – Multiple Linear Regression, Feature Engineering
📘 Read Note 1, Pages 16-17.
Week 6 – Midterm Exam, Gradient Descent
- Mon May 6
DISC 5 Midterm Exam Review (no worksheet, no required attendance)
- Tue May 7
EXAM Midterm Exam (in person, during assigned lecture)
- Thu May 9
LEC 11 Gradient Descent in Multiple Dimensions
Week 7 – Probability
- Mon May 13
DISC 6 Groupwork 5
- Tue May 14
LEC 12 Rules of Probability
- Thu May 16
LEC 13 Combinatorics
HW 5 Homework 5
Week 8 – Combinatorics, Independence
- Mon May 20
DISC 7 Groupwork 6
- Tue May 21
LEC 14 More Combinatorics
- Thu May 23
LEC 15 Independence and Bayes' Theorem
HW 6 Homework 6