Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science

UC Berkeley, Spring 2025

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Jan 10 · 0 min read

A beta version of the DeCal textbook can be found here!
Final Survey is due Friday, December 06 at 11:59pm
Welcome to Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science. Looking forward to an exciting semester!

Quote of the week: If you want to master something, teach it - Richard Feynman

Week 1

Sep 23: 1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊; Lecture Slides; Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 0 (Due 9/30)

Week 2

Sep 30: 2 Useful Libraries, Introduction to Pandas, Project Group Reveals! 🐼; Lecture Slides; Readings Pandas 1, Pandas 2, Pandas 3; Demos Pandas; Resources Pandas API Reference; Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 1 (Due 10/07)

Week 3

Oct 7: 3 Data Cleaning with Pandas 🧹; Lecture Slides, Jonathan’s Lightning Talk; Demos Data Cleaning with Pandas; Resources Data Cleaning Deepnote; Checkpoint Project Checkpoint 2 (Due 10/14)

Week 4

Oct 14: 4 Data Visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis 📈; Lecture Slides, Dhruv’s Lightning Talk; Demos Data Visualization

Week 5

Oct 21: 5 Career Panel and Hypothesis Testing 🔬; Lecture Slides; Demos Hypothesis Testing; Checkpoint [Project Checkpoint 3] (Due 10/28)

Week 6

Oct 28: 6 Basic Machine Learning Models 🎰; Lecture Slides; Demos Machine Learning; Survey DeCal Midsemester Feedback Reflection (Due 11/04)

Week 7

Nov 4: 7 Machine Learning Evaluations and Cross Validation; Lecture Slides; Demos Machine Learning Evaluation

Week 8

Nov 11: Veterans Day! No class

Week 9

Nov 18: 8 Symposium 1; Lecture Mini Announcements

Week 10

Nov 25: Thanksgiving Break No class

Week 11

Dec 2: 9 Symposium 2; Lecture Mini Announcements
Dec 6: 10 Reflection; Survey DeCal Feedback Reflection (Due 12/06)