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Data Science Capstone

DSC 180AB, Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 at UC San Diego

This is the student-facing course website for the 2025-26 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 2025 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 29: Introduction
Read the Syllabus
1Servers I: Accessing DSMLPAWS Fundamentals: S3 and EC2MA 1 (due Oct. 6th)
Welcome Survey (due Oct. 6)
2Servers II: GPUs and Background TasksAs before, Participation questions are due Sunday evening by 11.59pm

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 video on command-line arguments in Python!
4Effective Communication and Scientific Writing
featuring Prof. Benjamin Smarr
MA 2 (due Oct. 27th)

Winter 2026 Schedule