Data Science Capstone
DSC 180AB, Fall 2026 and Winter 2027 at UC San Diego
This is the student-facing course website for the 2026-27 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 mid Oct for the Fall quarter and by mid-January for the Winter Quarter **
Fall 2026 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Live on Monday, Oct 5 (Subject to finding a venue): Introduction Read the Syllabus AWS Fundamentals: S3 and EC2 | |||
| 1 | Servers I: Accessing DSMLP | MA 1 (due Oct. 5th) | PA for Week 1 due on Sunday, Oct 4th | |
| 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. | ||
| 3 | Software Development for Data Science Watch this video on command-line arguments in Python! | |||