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Data Science Capstone

DSC 180AB, Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 at UC San Diego

This is the student-facing course website for the 2024-25 offering of the capstone sequence. See dsc-capstone.org for more general information.

** Note: This schedule is subject to change. We expect this schedule to stabilize by end Sept for the Fall quarter and by mid-January for the Winter Quarter **

Fall 2024 Schedule

WeekMethodology
Lessons and assignments are released on Mondays.
Assignments are due on a week later on Mondays at 11:59PM.
Participation Assignments are due on each Sunday by 11.59pm
DomainProject
1Live on Monday, Sept 30: Introduction

Recording

Read the Syllabus
1Servers I: Accessing DSMLPMA 1 (due Oct. 7)
Welcome Survey (due Oct. 7)
2Servers II: GPUs and Background TasksAs before, Participation questions are due Sunday evening by 11.59pm OR 24 hours before discussion meetings upon explicit mentor request.

These are in addition to any tasks or readings your mentor assigned you.

You may skip submitting PAs for Weeks 9 and 10 because of Thanksgiving AND the need to finish up the Q1 project and Q2 project proposals.
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. 27th)Week 4 TA Check-In (complete by Oct. 25th)
5Ethics and Values
by Prof. David Danks
MA 3 (due Nov. 3rd) Q1 Project Intermediate Submission(complete by Nov 4th)
6GitMA 4 (due Nov. 11th)
7LaTeX, Markdown, and GitHub Pages (MA 5 due Nov. 17th)
8Environments and Containerization (MA 6 due Nov 24th)Week 8 TA Check-In
9Project ManagementWork on your Q1 project and Q2 project proposal (Due by Dec 2nd)
10No lesson.

Submit your Q1 project as well as the Q2 project proposal (Dec 2nd midnight)

Winter 2025 Schedule - Coming soon to a website near you!