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
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Live on Monday, Sept 29: Introduction Read the Syllabus AWS Fundamentals: S3 and EC2 | |||
| 1 | Servers I: Accessing DSMLP | MA 1 (due Oct. 6th) Welcome Survey (due Oct. 6) | ||
| 2 | Servers II: GPUs and Background Tasks | As 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. | ||
| 3 | Software Development for Data Science Watch this video on command-line arguments in Python! | |||
| 4 | Effective Communication and Scientific Writing featuring Prof. Benjamin Smarr | MA 2 (due Oct. 27th) | ||
| 5 | Git | MA 3 (due Nov. 3rd) | ||
| 6 | LaTeX, Markdown, and GitHub Pages (MA 4 due Nov. 10th) | The Q1 Project report checkpoint is due on Friday, Nov 7th | ||
| 6 | Topics on Entrepreneurship | |||
| 7 | Environments and Containerization (MA 5 due Nov 17th) | |||
| 8 | Ethics and Values by Prof. David Danks | MA 6 (due Nov. 24th) | Remember to sign up for and attend the final TA Checkin | |
| 9 | Project Management | Week 8/9 TA Check-In | Work on your Q1 project and Q2 project proposal (Due by Dec 5th) | |
| 10 | No lesson. | Submit your Q1 project as well as the Q2 project proposal (By 11.59pm, Friday, Dec 5th) | ||