DS-UA 202

Responsible Data Science (Undergraduate Course) Plan, Spring ‘25

Table:

Date Week Unit Title Guest Lab
1/23/25 1 Intro Introduction None NO LAB
1/30/25 2 Fairness Algo Fairness I Drew Calcagno (Google) COMPAS
2/6/25 3 Fairness Algo Fairness II   Fairlearn I
2/13/25 4 Fairness Fairness III Ben Laufer (Cornell) Fairlearn II
2/20/25 5 Fairness Lifecycle   Intersectionality
2/27/25 6 Transparency Explainability I Mateo Espinosa (Cambridge) Data Cleaning
3/6/25 7 Transparency Explainability II Lujain Ibrahim (Oxford) NO LAB
3/13/25 8 Transparency Ads Varun Babbar (Duke) SHAP
3/20/25 9 Midterm Exam     LIME
3/27/25 10 Spring Break      
4/3/25 11 Transparency Explainability III Valerie Chen (CMU) ONLINE SHARP
4/10/25 12 Data Protection Diff Privacy   DataSynthesizer
4/17/25 13 Data Protection Diff Privacy   DataSynthesizer
4/24/25 14 Data Protection Applied Ethics Mackenzie Jorgensen (Turing) Final Review
5/1/25 15 Final Exam     Project OH

Material Table:

Week Unit Reading Lecture Slides
1 Intro   intro slides
2 Fairness Introduction and Algorithmic Fairness Lecture slides
3 Fairness Introduction and Algorithmic Fairness Lecture slides
4 Fairness Introduction and Algorithmic Fairness Lecture slides
5 Fairness Responsibility in the Data Science Lifecycle  
6 Transparency    
7 Transparency    
8 Transparency    
9 Midterm Exam    
10 Spring Break    
11 Transparency    
12 Data Protection    
13 Data Protection    
14 Data Protection    
15 Final Exam