Data 8: Foundations of Data Science

UC Berkeley, Spring 2025

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Week 4 Announcements

Feb 9
  1. Assignments Due
  2. The midterm is on Friday, 3/14, 7-9 PM
    • If you have a time conflict with the midterm, fill out the alternate exam form ASAP
  3. Lab 01, Lab 02, HW 01 Score Release post
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Week 1

Jan 22
1 Introduction
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Lab Lab 01 (Due 1/24)
Discussion Worksheet 01
Jan 24
2 Cause and Effect
Slides
Reading: 2
Homework Homework 01 (Due 1/29)

Week 2

Jan 27
3 Programming in Python
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 3
Lab Lab 02 (Due 1/31)
Discussion Worksheet 02
Jan 29
4 Data Types
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 4, 5
Jan 31
5 Tables
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 6.1, 6.2
Homework Homework 02 (Due 2/5)

Week 3

Feb 3
6 Case Study: Census
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 6.3, 6.4
Lab Lab 03 (Due 2/7)
Discussion Worksheet 03
Feb 5
7 Data Visualization
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 7, 7.1
Feb 7
8 Histograms
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 7.2, 7.3
Homework Homework 03 (Due 2/12)

Week 4

Feb 10
9 Functions
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 8, 8.1
Lab Lab 04 (Due 2/14)
Discussion Worksheet 04
Feb 12
10 Groups
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 8.2, 8.3
Feb 14
11 Pivots and Joins
Slides β€’ Demo
Reading: 8.4
Homework Homework 04 (Due 2/19)
Project Project 1: World Population and Poverty (Due Fri 2/28, Checkpoint Fri 2/21)

Week 5

Feb 17
Presidents’ Day No class
Lab
Feb 19
12 Conditionals and Iteration
Reading: 9, 9.1, 9.2
Discussion Worksheet 05
Feb 21
13 Chance
Reading: 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Homework Homework 05

Week 6

Feb 24
14 Empirical and Probability Distributions
Reading: 9.5, 10
Lab Lab 05
Feb 26
15 Models
Reading: 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Discussion Worksheet 06
Feb 28
16 Hypothesis Testing
Reading: 11.1, 11.2
Homework Homework 06

Week 7

Mar 3
17 Decisions and Uncertainty
Reading: 11.3, 11.4
Lab Lab 06
Mar 5
18 A/B Testing
Reading: 11.4, 12.1
Discussion Worksheet 07
Mar 7
19 Hypothesis Testing and Causality
Reading: 12.2, 12.3
Homework Homework 07

Week 8

Mar 10
20 Table Examples
Lab Midterm Review
Mar 12
21 Midterm Review I
Discussion Worksheet 08
Mar 14
22 Midterm Review II
Exam Midterm Exam (7 - 9 PM)

Week 9

Mar 17
23 Confidence Intervals
Reading: 13, 13.1, 13.2
Lab Lab 07
Mar 19
24 Interpreting Confidence
Reading: 13.3, 13.4
Discussion Worksheet 09
Mar 21
25 Center and Spread
Reading: 14, 14.1, 14.2
Homework Homework 08

Week 10

Mar 24
Spring Break No class
Mar 26
Spring Break No class
Mar 26
Spring Break No class

Week 11

Mar 31
26 Sample Means
Reading: 14.5
Lab Lab 08
Apr 2
27 The Normal Distribution
Reading: 14.3, 14.4
Discussion Worksheet 10
Apr 4
28 Choosing a Sample Size
Reading: 14.6
Homework Homework 09
Project Project 2: Climate

Week 12

Apr 7
29 Correlation
Reading: 15.1
Apr 9
30 The Regression Line
Reading: 15.2
Discussion Worksheet 11
Apr 11
31 The Method of Least Squares
Reading: 15.3, 15.4
Homework Homework 10

Week 13

Apr 14
32 Residuals
Reading: 15.5, 15.6
Lab Lab 09
Apr 16
33 Regression Inference
Reading: 16
Discussion Worksheet 12
Apr 18
34 Intro to Classification
Reading: 17.1, 17.2
Homework Homework 11
Project Project 3: Movie Classification

Week 14

Apr 21
35 Implementing Classifiers
Reading: 17.3, 17.4
Apr 23
36 Evaluating Classifiers
Reading: 17.5
Discussion Worksheet 13
Apr 25
37 Multiple Linear Regression
Reading: 17.6
Homework Homework 12

Week 15

Apr 28
38 Updating Probabilities
Reading: 18, 18.1, 18.2
Lab Lab 10
Homework Homework 13
Apr 30
39 Staff Panel / Privacy
Discussion Worksheet 14
May 2
40 Conclusion

RRR Week

May 5
41 RRR Review I
May 7
42 RRR Review II
May 9
43 RRR Review III

Final

May 13
Exam Final Exam (7-10 PM)