Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science

UC Berkeley, Fall 2026

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Week 1 Announcements

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Week 1

Sep 14

1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊

Lecture Slides

Week 2

Sep 21

2 Intro to Pandas, Data Cleaning, EDA

Week 3

Sep 28

3 Data Visualization, Feature Engineering

Week 4

Oct 5

4 Loss Functions, Gradient Descent, Bias/Variance

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