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 **
Winter 2025 Schedule
| Week | Tasks These are all in addition to Weekly Participation Assignment, which are due on Sundays at 11:59PM. All groups must fill these out, no matter what other requirements your mentors give you. Unlike the fall quarter, every group MUST submit by Sunday midnight each week. | |
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| 1 | Read the Syllabus and Quarter 2 Project specifications. Start attending sections. ✅ Submit your first Weekly Participation Assignment as a group by Sunday, January 12th; make sure to submit a PDF to Gradescope and, as a one time step, to share your Google Doc with us. | |
| 2 | Keep working! | |
| 3 | Sign up for and attend your Week 3 TA Check-In. | |
| 4 | Sign up for an Ethics Check-in with Prof. David Danks | |
| 5 | ✅ Submit your Report Checkpoint and Code Checkpoint by Sunday, February 9th. Attend an Ethics Check-In with Prof. David Danks between February 3rd and 14th. | |
| 6 | ✅ Submit your Poster Checkpoint by Sunday, February 16th. | |
| 7 | ✅ Submit your Website Checkpoint by Sunday, February 23rd. Update your poster to follow the new Branding Guidelines. | |
| 8 | Sign up for and attend a Week 8 TA Checkin, where you will present a dry run of your Poster Presentation. RSVP for your block at the showcase. | |
| 9 | Keep Working! | |
| 10 | ✅ Submit your Poster by Sunday, March 9th at this link. ✅ Submit your report, code, website, and contribution statement by Monday, March 10th and attend the Showcase on March Friday, 14th | |
Fall 2024 Schedule
| Week | Methodology 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 | Domain | Project | |
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| 1 | Live on Monday, Sept 30: Introduction Recording Read the Syllabus | |||
| 1 | Servers I: Accessing DSMLP | MA 1 (due Oct. 7) Welcome Survey (due Oct. 7) | ||
| 2 | Servers II: GPUs and Background Tasks | As 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. | ||
| 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. 27th) | Week 4 TA Check-In (complete by Oct. 25th) | |
| 5 | Ethics and Values by Prof. David Danks | MA 3 (due Nov. 3rd) | Q1 Project Intermediate Submission(complete by Nov 4th) | |
| 6 | Git | MA 4 (due Nov. 11th) | ||
| 7 | LaTeX, Markdown, and GitHub Pages (MA 5 due Nov. 17th) | |||
| 8 | Environments and Containerization (MA 6 due Nov 24th) | Week 8 TA Check-In | ||
| 9 | Project Management | Work on your Q1 project and Q2 project proposal (Due by Dec 2nd) | ||
| 10 | No lesson. | Submit your Q1 project as well as the Q2 project proposal (By 11.59pm, Wednesday, Dec 4th) | ||