Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I

DSC 40A, Fall 2024 at UC San Diego

Gal Mishne
she/her/hers

gmishne@ucsd.edu

Lecture(s): MWF 4:00-4:50PM Pepper Canyon Hall 106

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Week 0 - Introduction to Modeling

Fri Sep 27

LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling

SUR Welcome Survey

Week 1 - Loss Functions
📘 Read Note 1, Pages 1-12, xkcd.

Mon Sep 30

LEC 2 Empirical Risk Minimization

DISC 1 Groupwork 1 (due Friday Oct. 4th)

Wed Oct 2

LEC 3 Empirical Risk Minimization

Fri Oct 4

LEC 4 Comparing loss functions

Week 2 – Simple Linear Regression
📘 Read the spread notes and Note 2, Pages 1-7, xkcd.

Mon Oct 7

LEC 5 Prediction with features

DISC 2 Groupwork 2

Wed Oct 9

LEC 6 Linear regression

Fri Oct 11

LEC 7 Linear regression continued

HW 1 due Homework 1

Week 3 – Linear Algebra: Dot products and projections
🎥 Watch 3blue1brown, xkcd.

Mon Oct 14

LEC 8 Linear algebra - vectors and dot product

DISC 3 Groupwork 3

Wed Oct 16

LEC 9 Linear algebra - span and projections

Fri Oct 18

LEC 10 Linear algebra - matrices and projections

HW 2 due Homework 2 - DUE 10/19 @ 11:59PM

Week 4 - Multiple Linear regression and linear algebra
📘 Read Note 2, Pages 10-19, xkcd.

Mon Oct 21

LEC 11 Regression and Linear algebra

DISC 4 Groupwork 4

Wed Oct 23

LEC 12 Multiple Linear Regression

Fri Oct 25

LEC 13 Feature Engineering

HW 3 due Homework 3

Week 5

Mon Oct 28

LEC 14 Gradient descent

DISC 5 Groupwork 5

Fri Nov 1

HW 4 due Homework 4

Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I

Gal Mishneshe/her/hers

Week 0 - Introduction to Modeling

Week 1 - Loss Functions📘 Read Note 1, Pages 1-12, xkcd.

Week 2 – Simple Linear Regression📘 Read the spread notes and Note 2, Pages 1-7, xkcd.

Week 3 – Linear Algebra: Dot products and projections🎥 Watch 3blue1brown, xkcd.

Week 4 - Multiple Linear regression and linear algebra📘 Read Note 2, Pages 10-19, xkcd.