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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.

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

WeekMethodology
Lessons are released on Wednesdays by 11:59PM.
Assignments are due on Tuesdays at 11:59PM.
DomainProject
Live on Monday, Oct. 2: Introduction (🎥 recording)
1Servers I: Accessing DSMLPMA 1 (due Oct. 9)
Welcome Survey (due Oct. 9)
2Servers II: GPUs and Background TasksStarting Week 2, Participation questions are due 24 hours before discussion meetings.

These are in addition to any tasks or readings your mentor assigned you.
3Software Development for Data Science
Watch this new video on command-line arguments in Python!
4Effective Communication and Scientific Writing
featuring Prof. Benjamin Smarr
MA 2 (due Oct. 31)Week 4 TA Check-In (complete by Oct. 27)
5Ethics and Values
by Prof. David Danks
MA 3 (due Nov. 8)
6GitMA 4 (due Nov. 16)Q1 Project Checkpoint (due Nov. 6)
7LaTeX, Markdown, and GitHub Pages (MA 5 due Nov. 27)
8No methodology lesson (Thanksgiving)
9Environments and Containerization (MA 6 due Dec. 13)Week 9/10 TA Check-In (complete by Dec. 5)
10Project ManagementQ1 Project (due Dec. 11)

Q2 Project Proposal (due Dec. 11)