Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science 
UC Berkeley, Fall 2026
Week 4 Announcements
- Project Checkpoint 1 is due tonight, October 5, at 11:59 PM. Review the checkpoint instructions and submit PC1 using this form.
- Lab 03: Introduction to Machine Learning is released and due Monday, October 12, at 5:00 PM.
Week 1
- Sep 14
- 1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊
- Lecture Slides
Week 2
- Sep 21
- 2 Introduction to Pandas, Data Cleaning and Manipulation, Introductory EDA
- Lecture Slides
- Textbook Pandas, Data Cleaning, and Introductory EDA
- Lab Lab 01: Pandas, Data Cleaning, and EDA (Due 9/28 at 5:00 PM)
- Lightning Talk Recruiting - Wayland La
- Lecture Slides
Week 3
- Sep 28
- 3 Data Visualization, Feature Engineering and Selection
- Lecture Slides
- Textbook Data Visualization, Feature Engineering, and Selection
- Lab Lab 02: Data Visualization, Feature Engineering, and Selection (Due 10/5 at 5:00 PM)
- Lightning Talk Navigating Berkeley - Collin
- Lecture Slides
Week 4
- Oct 5
- 4 Introduction to Machine Learning, Loss Functions, Gradient Descent, Bias/Variance
- Lecture Slides
- Textbook Introduction to Machine Learning
- Lab Lab 03: Introduction to Machine Learning (Due 10/12 at 5:00 PM)
- Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 1 (Due 10/5 at 11:59 PM) · Submit PC1
- Lecture Slides
Week 5
- Oct 12
5 ML & Modeling I
Week 6
- Oct 19
- 6 ML & Modeling II
Week 7
- Oct 26
- 8 ML and Modeling III
Week 8
- Nov 2
- 9 ML and Modeling IV
Week 9
- Nov 9
10 ML & Modeling V
Week 10
- Nov 16
- 11 Symposium I
Week 11
- Nov 23
- 12 No Lecture (Thanksgiving Break)
Week 12
- Nov 30
- 13 Symposium II