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DSC 40A

Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I

DSC 40A, Winter 2025 at UC San Diego 👋

Winter 2025

LEDDN AUD

TUE & THUR 5:00PM - 6:20PM

Kyle Shannon (Data Soothsayer)

kshannon@ucsd.edu

Week 1 - Modeling, Loss Functions, & Simple Linear Regression
📘 Read Chapter 1, Pages 1-12.
🍿 Watch Ahmed's Calc Review.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Jan 7

MISC Sign Up for EdStem (class discussion board)

SUR Welcome Survey

LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling (LIVE)
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MISC Assign study groups

HW Homework 0 (not due!)
                   problems   template   solutions

🧑‍🏫  Wed Jan 8

DISC No Section

🧑‍🏫  Thu Jan 9

LEC 2 Empirical Risk Minimization
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 1    code   solutions

HW Homework 1 Released (due Jan 19, 11:59 pm)
                   problems   template   submission

Week 2 - Loss Functions & Simple Linear Regression
📘 Read Chapter 2, Pages 1-7.
📘 Read the spread notes.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Jan 14

LEC 3 Comparing Loss Functions
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 2
                   problems   solutions

🧑‍🏫  Wed Jan 15

DISC Groupwork 1 (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Jan 16

LEC 4 Simple Linear Regression
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 3
                   problems   data

🧑‍🏫  Tue Jan 21

DEMO Demo 1

HW Homework 2 Released (due Feb 2, 11:59 pm)

LEC 5 Simple Linear Regression, Continued
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🧑‍🏫  Wed Jan 22

DISC Groupwork 2 (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Jan 23

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 4

LEC 6 Dot Products and Projections
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Week 4 - Linear Algebra & Regression

🧑‍🏫  Tue Jan 28

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 5

LEC 7 Orthogonal Projections
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🧑‍🏫  Wed Jan 29

DISC Groupwork 2 Review (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Jan 30

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 6

LEC 8 Regression and Linear Algebra
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Week 5 - Linear Algebra & Regression

🧑‍🏫  Tue Feb 4

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 7

HW Homework 3 Released (due Feb 16, 11:59 pm)

LEC 9 Multiple Linear Regression
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🧑‍🏫  Wed Feb 5

REVW Midterm Review

🧑‍🏫  Thu Feb 6

EXAM Midterm Exam

Week 6 - Multiple Linear Regression & Feature Engineering

🧑‍🏫  Tue Feb 11

DEMO Demo 2

LEC 10 Feature Engineering, Gradient Descent
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🧑‍🏫  Wed Feb 12

DISC Groupwork 3 (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Feb 13

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 8

LEC 11 Gradient Descent, Continued
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Week 7 - Gradient Descent
📘 Read Chapter 1, Pages 16-17.
📘 Read Notes on Convexity.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Feb 18

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 9

LEC 12 Foundations of Probability
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HW Homework 4 Released (due Mar 7, 11:59 pm)

🧑‍🏫  Wed Feb 19

DISC Groupwork 3 Review (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Feb 20

DEMO Demo 3

Week 8 - Probability & Combinatorics
📘 Read Janine's probability roadmap (in order):
       Roadmap with Questions  -  Roadmap with Answers  -  Summary
📘 Read Chapters 1 and 2 of this online Probability Textbook.
🍿 Watch Suraj's combinatoric problems.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Feb 25

HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 10

LEC 13 Combinatorics
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🧑‍🏫  Wed Feb 26

DISC Groupwork 4 (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Feb 27

LEC 14 More Combinatorics Examples
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 11

Week 9 - Probability & Independence
💪 Build intuition for probability.
💪 Build intuition for conditional probability.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Mar 4

LEC 15 Bayes' Theorem and Independence
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 12

🧑‍🏫  Wed Mar 5

DISC Groupwork 4 Review (Discussion Section)

🧑‍🏫  Thu Mar 6

LEC 16 Independence and Conditional Independence
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HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 13

Week 10 - Naïve Bayes & Course Conclusion
📘 Read Notes on Conditional Independence.

🧑‍🏫  Tue Mar 11

LEC 17 Naïve Bayes
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DEMO Demo 4

🧑‍🏫  Wed Mar 12

REVW Final Review

🧑‍🏫  Thu Mar 13

LEC 18 More Naïve Bayes, Review
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LEC 19 Conclusion (LIVE)

Week 11 - Final Exam Week

🧑‍🏫  Thu Mar 20

EXAM Final Exam