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

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 7: MISC Sign Up for EdStem (class discussion board) SIGN UP LINK; SUR Welcome Survey; LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling (LIVE)
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problems template solutions
🧑‍🏫 Wed Jan 8: DISC No Section
🧑‍🏫 Thu Jan 9: LEC 2 Empirical Risk Minimization
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Week 2 - Loss Functions & Simple Linear Regression

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 14: LEC 3 Comparing Loss Functions
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Jan 15: DISC Groupwork 1 (Discussion Section)
🧑‍🏫 Thu Jan 16: LEC 4 Simple Linear Regression
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Week 3 - Linear Algebra & Regression
🍿 Watch Owen's Matrix Multiplication Review Pt.1.
🍿 Watch Owen's Matrix Multiplication Review Pt.2.

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 21: DEMO Demo 1; HW Homework 2 Released; 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; 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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🧑‍🏫 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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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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🧑‍🏫 Wed Mar 5: DISC Groupwork 4 Review (Discussion Section)
🧑‍🏫 Thu Mar 6: LEC 16 Independence and Conditional Independence
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Week 10 - Naïve Bayes & Course Conclusion
📘 Read Notes on Conditional Independence.

🧑‍🏫 Tue Mar 11: LEC 17 Naïve Bayes
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Mar 12: REVW Final Review
🧑‍🏫 Thu Mar 13: LEC 18 More Naïve Bayes, Review
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Week 11 - Final Exam Week

🧑‍🏫 Thu Mar 20: EXAM Final Exam