Data Science Capstone

DSC 180AB, Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 at UC San Diego

We’re in the final stretch of the quarter! Here’s what you need to know.
If you haven’t signed up for a REQUIRED Week 9/10 TA Check-In, there are still slots for Monday 12/4 and Tuesday 12/5. Sign up ASAP if you haven’t!
The following are due on Monday, December 11th:
The Quarter 2 Project Proposal.
The Quarter 1 Project. Make sure to use the newly-released Capstone LaTeX template for your report.
The submission portals for all of the above are open on Gradescope, including a Contributions Statement that you must submit individually.
Methodology Assignment 6 is due Wednesday 12/13; Methodology Lesson 8 (Environments and Containerization) is combined with MA 6. Make sure to read it and Methodology Lesson 9 (Project Management) as well!
Please fill out both the official Student Evaluations of Teaching by Saturday 12/9 at 8AM and the End-of-Quarter Survey by the end of finals week. Thank you for your feedback!
Make sure to enroll in the same discussion section in DSC 180B that you’re currently enrolled in for DSC 180A.

The schedule and dates below are subject to change throughout the quarter.

Week	Methodology Lessons are released on Wednesdays by 11:59PM. Assignments are due on Tuesdays at 11:59PM.		Domain	Project
	Live on Monday, Oct. 2: Introduction (🎥 recording)
1	Servers I: Accessing DSMLP	MA 1 (due Oct. 9) Welcome Survey (due Oct. 9)
2	Servers II: GPUs and Background Tasks		Starting Week 2, Participation questions are due 24 hours before discussion meetings. These are in addition to any tasks or readings your mentor assigned you.
3	Software Development for Data Science Watch this new video on command-line arguments in Python!
4	Effective Communication and Scientific Writing featuring Prof. Benjamin Smarr	MA 2 (due Oct. 31)		Week 4 TA Check-In (complete by Oct. 27)
5	Ethics and Values by Prof. David Danks	MA 3 (due Nov. 8)
6	Git	MA 4 (due Nov. 16)		Q1 Project Checkpoint (due Nov. 6)
7	LaTeX, Markdown, and GitHub Pages (MA 5 due Nov. 27)
8	No methodology lesson (Thanksgiving)
9	Environments and Containerization (MA 6 due Dec. 13)			Week 9/10 TA Check-In (complete by Dec. 5)
10	Project Management			Q1 Project (due Dec. 11) Q2 Project Proposal (due Dec. 11)