Data 198: Introduction to Real World Data Science

UC Berkeley, Spring 2026

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Feb 6 · 0 min read

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

Week 1

Feb 9: 1 Welcome, Icebreakers, Data Science Lifecycle, Course Expectations 🧊; Lecture Slides

Week 2

Feb 16: 1 No Lecture (President’s Day)

Week 3

Sep 29: 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 4

Mar 2: 3 EDA, Data Visualization; Lecture Slides; Demos Data Visualization; Worksheet Worksheet

Week 5

Mar 9: 4 Hypothesis Testing and Probability; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Hypothesis Testing

Week 6

Mar 16: 5 Feature Engineering and Selection; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Kaggle Resource Feature Engineering

Week 7

Mar 23: 1 No Lecture (Spring Break)

Week 8

Mar 30: 6 ML and Modelling 1 🎰; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning

Week 9

Apr 6: 7 ML and Modelling 2; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning Evaluation

Week 10

Apr 13: 8 ML and Modelling 3 🎰; Lecture Slides; Worksheet Worksheet; Demos Machine Learning

Week 11

Apr 20: 8 Symposium I

Week 12

Apr 27: 9 Symposium II