Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science

UC Berkeley, Spring 2025

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Week 9

Apr 7 · 0 min read

Quote of the week: i also love lebron – Henry Hong

Week 1

Feb 10
1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊
Lecture Slides
Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 1 (Due 2/28)

Week 2

Feb 17
Presidents’ Day! No class

Week 3

Feb 24
2 Useful Libraries, Introduction to Pandas, Project Group Reveals! 🐼

Lecture Slides

Readings Pandas 1, Pandas 2, Pandas 3

Resources Pandas API Reference

Week 4

Mar 3
3 Data Cleaning with Pandas 🧹
Lecture Slides, Jonathan’s Lightning Talk
Demos Data Cleaning with Pandas
Resources Data Cleaning Deepnote

Week 5

Mar 10
4 Data Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis 📈
Lecture Slides
Demos Data Visualization
Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 2 (Due 03/17)

Week 6

Mar 17
5 Hypothesis Testing 🔬
Lecture Slides, Michael’s Lightning Talk!
Demos Hypothesis Testing
Survey DeCal Midsemester Feedback Reflection (Due 03/21)
Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 3 (Due 03/31)

Week 7

Mar 24
Spring Break! No class

Week 8

Mar 31
6 Basic Machine Learning Models 🎰
Lecture Slides
Demos Machine Learning
Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 4 (Due 04/14)

Week 9

Apr 7
6 Career Panel
Lecture Slides
Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 4 (Due 04/14)