Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science

UC Berkeley, Fall 2025

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Welcome to DATA 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science!!

Week 1

Sep 15: 1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊; Lecture Slides

Week 2

Sep 22: 2 Useful Libraries, Introduction to Pandas, Data Cleaning and Manipulation, Project Group Reveals! 🐼; Lecture Slides; Readings Pandas 1, Pandas 2, Pandas 3; Demos Pandas; Resources Pandas API Reference; Worksheet Worksheet

Week 3

Sep 29: 3 EDA, Data Visualization; Lecture Slides; Demos Data Visualization; Worksheet Worksheet

Week 4

Oct 6: 4 Hypothesis Testing and Probability; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Hypothesis Testing

Week 5

Oct 13: 5 Feature Engineering and Selection; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Kaggle Resource Feature Engineering

Week 6

Oct 20: 6 ML and Modelling 1 🎰; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning

Week 7

Oct 27: 7 ML and Modelling 2; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning Evaluation

Week 8

Nov 3: 8 ML and Modelling 3 🎰; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning

Week 9

Nov 10: 9 ML and Modelling 4; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Lightning Talk Lightning Talk

Week 10

Nov 17: 7 Symposium I

Week 11

Nov 24: 8 NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Week)

Week 12

Dec 1: 9 Symposium II