Data 8: Foundations of Data Science

UC Berkeley, Fall 2024

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• Assignments Due
  • Homework 02 is due on Wednesday, September 11th @ 5 PM
  • Lab 03 is due on Friday, September 13th @ 5 PM
  • Homework 03 is due on Wednesday, September 18th @ 5 PM
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Week 1

Aug 28

1 Introduction

Slides • Demo

Reading: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Lab Lab 01 (Due 8/30)

Lab 01 Worksheet

Aug 30

2 Cause and Effect

Slides

Reading: 2

Homework Homework 01 (Due 9/4)

Week 2

Sep 2

Labor Day No class

Lab Lab 02 (Due 9/6)

Lab 02 Worksheet

Sep 4

3 Tables

Slides • Demo

Reading: 3

Sep 6

4 Data Types

Slides • Demo

Reading: 4, 5

Homework Homework 02 (Due 9/11)

Week 3

Sep 9

5 Building Tables

Slides • Demo

Reading: 6.1, 6.2

Lab Lab 03 (Due 9/13)

Lab 03 Worksheet

Sep 11

6 Census

Slides • Demo

Reading: 6.3, 6.4

Sep 13

7 Charts

Slides • Demo

Reading: 7, 7.1

Homework Homework 03 (Due 9/18)

Week 4

Sep 16

8 Histograms

Reading: 7.2, 7.3

Lab Lab 04 (Due 9/20)

Sep 18

9 Functions

Reading: 8, 8.1

Sep 20

10 Groups

Reading: 8.2, 8.3

Homework Homework 04 (Due 9/25)

Project Project 1: World Population and Poverty (Due Fri 10/4)

Week 5

Sep 23

11 Pivots and Joins

Reading: 9.5, 10

Lab Project 1 Work Time

Sep 25

12 Iteration

Reading: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4

Sep 27

13 Chance

Reading: 11.4, 12.1

Homework Homework 05 (Due 10/2)

Week 6

Sep 30

14 Sampling

Reading: 12.2

Lab Lab 05 (Due 10/4)

Oct 2

15 Models

Reading: 12.3

Oct 4

16 Comparing Distributions

Homework Homework 06 (Due 10/9)

Week 7

Oct 7

17 Decisions and Uncertainty

Reading: 13, 13.1, 13.2

Lab Lab 06 (Due 10/11)

Oct 9

18 A/B Testing

Reading: 13.3, 13.4

Oct 11

19 Causality

Reading: 14, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4

Homework Homework 07 (Due 10/16)

Week 8

Oct 14

20 Midterm Review I

Lab Midterm Review

Oct 16

21 Midterm Review II

Oct 18

22 Midterm Review

Exam Midterm Exam (7 - 9 PM)

Week 9

Oct 21

23 Confidence Intervals

Reading: 15.2

Lab Lab 07 (Due 10/25)

Oct 23

24 Interpreting Confidence

Reading: 15.3, 15.4

Oct 25

25 Center and Spread

Reading: 15.5, 15.6

Homework Homework 08 (Due 10/30)

Week 10

Oct 28

26 The Normal Distribution

Reading: 16

Lab Lab 08 (Due 11/1)

Oct 30

27 Sample Means

Reading: 17, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3

Nov 1

28 Designing Experiments

Reading: 17.4

Homework Homework 09 (Due 11/6)

Project Project 2: Climate (Due Fri 11/15)

Week 11

Nov 4

29 Correlation

Reading: 13, 18

Lab Project 2 Work Time

Nov 6

30 Linear Regression

Nov 8

31 Least Squares

Homework Homework 10 (Due 11/13)

Week 12

Nov 11

Veterans Day No class

Lab Lab 09 (Due 11/15)

Nov 13

32 Residuals

Nov 15

33 Regression Inference

Homework Homework 11 (Due 11/20)

Project Project 3: Classifying Movies (Due Fri 12/6)

Week 13

Nov 18

34 Classification

Lab Project 3 Work Time

Nov 20

35 Evaluating Classifiers

Nov 22

36 Multiple Linear Regression

Homework Homework 12 (Due 11/26)

Week 14

Nov 25

37 Staff Panel

Nov 27

Holiday No class

Nov 29

Holiday No class

Week 15

Dec 2

38 Updating Probabilities

Lab Lab 10 (Due 12/6)

Dec 4

39 Case Study: Computer Vision

Dec 6

40 Conclusion

Homework Homework 13 (Due 12/11)

Final

Dec 16

Exam Final Exam (8-11 AM)