Theoretical Foundations of Data Science I

DSC 40A, Winter 2025 at UC San Diego 👋

Winter 2025

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

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 7: MISC Sign Up for EdStem (class discussion board); SUR Welcome Survey; LEC 1 Introduction to Modeling (LIVE)
blank filled; 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
blank filled recording; HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 1
problems code solutions; HW Homework 1 Released (due Jan 19, 11:59 pm)
problems template solutions submission

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 14: LEC 3 Comparing Loss Functions
blank filled recording; HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 2
problems solutions
🧑‍🏫 Wed Jan 15: DISC Groupwork 1 (Discussion Section)
problems solutions
🧑‍🏫 Thu Jan 16: LEC 4 Simple Linear Regression
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problems data solutions

🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 21: DEMO Demo 1; HW Homework 2 Released (due Feb 2, 11:59 pm)
problems template solutions; LEC 5 Simple Linear Regression, Continued
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Jan 22: DISC Groupwork 2 (Discussion Section)
problems solutions
🧑‍🏫 Thu Jan 23: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 4 (canceled due to fire moved to next week); LEC 6 Dot Products and Projections
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🧑‍🏫 Tue Jan 28: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 4
problems solutions; LEC 7 Orthogonal Projections
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Jan 29: DISC Groupwork 2 Review (Discussion Section)
problems
🧑‍🏫 Thu Jan 30: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 5
problems code code solutions solutions; LEC 8 Regression and Linear Algebra
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🧑‍🏫 Tue Feb 4: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 6
problems code additional code; HW Homework 3 Released (due Feb 26, 11:59 pm)
problems template submission; LEC 9 Multiple Linear Regression
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Feb 5: REVW Midterm Review
🧑‍🏫 Thu Feb 6: EXAM Midterm Exam
study guide

🧑‍🏫 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 7
problems code solutions; LEC 11 Gradient Descent, Continued
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🧑‍🏫 Tue Feb 18: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 8
problems code data solutions; LEC 12 Foundations of Probability
blank filled recording; HW Homework 4 Released (due Mar 7, 11:59 pm)
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🧑‍🏫 Wed Feb 19: DISC Groupwork 3 Review (Discussion Section)
🧑‍🏫 Thu Feb 20: DEMO Demo 3

🧑‍🏫 Tue Feb 25: HOPS Hands-On Problem Solving 9
problems code solutions; 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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🧑‍🏫 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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🧑‍🏫 Tue Mar 11: LEC 17 Naïve Bayes
blank filled recording; DEMO Demo 4
🧑‍🏫 Wed Mar 12: REVW Final Review
🧑‍🏫 Thu Mar 13: LEC 18 More Naïve Bayes, Review
blank filled recording; LEC 19 Conclusion (LIVE)