Data 140: Probability for Data Science
UC Berkeley, Fall 2025
Week 8
- The Week 8 Study Guide has been released.
- Homework 8 and Lab 6A have been released. They are both due next Monday, October 20th at 5 PM.
Calendar
Week 1: Introduction
- Aug 27
- Guide Week 1
- Aug 28
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- Lecture Probability: axioms, rules, approximation
- Course Information, Ch 1, 2
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- Homework Homework 1
- Due Sep 2 at 9 AM
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- Lab Lab 1
- Due Sep 2 at 9 AM
- Aug 29
- Mega-Section
Week 2: Random Variables and Symmetry
- Sep 1
- Labor Day
- Guide Week 2
- Sep 2
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- Homework Homework 2
- Due Sep 8 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 2
- Due Sep 8 at 5 PM
- Sep 3
- Section
- Sep 4
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- Lecture Symmetry and collections of events
- Ch 5
- Sep 5
- Mega-Section
Week 3: Random Counts
- Sep 8
- Guide Week 3
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- Homework Homework 3
- Due Sep 15 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 3A
- Due Sep 15 at 5 PM
- Sep 9
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- Lecture Binomial and related counts; a Poisson limit
- Ch 6
- Quiz Quiz 1, Day 1
- Sep 10
- Section
- Quiz Quiz 1, Day 2
- Sep 11
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- Lecture Independence and Poissonization
- Ch 7
- Sep 12
- Mega-Section
Week 4: Expectation
- Sep 15
- Guide Week 4
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- Homework Homework 4
- Due Sep 22 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 3B
- Due Sep 22 at 5 PM
- Sep 16
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- Lecture Expectation
- Ch 8.1 - 8.3
- Sep 17
- Section
- Sep 18
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- Lecture Expectation and additivity
- Ch 8.4 - 8.5
- Sep 19
- Mega-Section
Week 5: Conditioning and Markov Chains
- Sep 22
- Guide Week 5
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- Homework Homework 5
- Due Sep 29 at 12 PM NOON
- Quiz Quiz 2, Day 1
- Sep 23
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- Lecture Expectation by conditioning
- Ch 9
- Quiz Quiz 2, Day 2
- Sep 24
- Section
- Sep 25
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- Lecture Long run behavior of Markov chains
- Ch 10
- Sep 26
- Mega-Section
Week 6: Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Sep 29
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- Exam Midterm 1
- 8PM - 10PM
- Sep 30
- Guide Week 6
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- Homework Homework 6
- Due Oct 6 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 4
- Due Oct 6 at 5 PM
- Oct 1
- Section
- Oct 2
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- Lecture Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Ch 11.2 - 11.3
- Oct 3
- Mega-Section
Week 7: Variance and Tail Bounds
- Oct 6
- Guide Week 7
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- Homework Homework 7
- Due Oct 13 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 5
- Due Oct 13 at 5 PM
- Oct 7
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- Lecture Standard deviation and tail bounds
- Ch 12
- Oct 8
- Section
- Oct 9
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- Lecture Covariance and its uses
- Ch 13
- Oct 10
- Mega-Section
Week 8: Central Limit Theorem and Densities
- Oct 13
- Guide Week 8
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- Homework Homework 8
- Due Oct 20 at 5 PM
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- Lab Lab 6A
- Due Oct 20 at 5 PM
- Quiz Quiz 3, Day 1
- Oct 14
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- Lecture Central Limit Theorem
- Ch 14
- Quiz Quiz 3, Day 2
- Oct 15
- Section
- Oct 16
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- Lecture Probability densities
- Ch 15
- Oct 17
- Mega-Section
Week 9: Transformations and Joint Densities
Week 10: The Beta, Normal, and Gamma Families
Week 11: MGFs, MLE, and MAP
Week 12: The Beta and the Binomial; Prediction
- Nov 10
- Nov 11
- Veterans Day
- Nov 12
- Section
- Nov 13
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- Lecture Prediction and error
- Ch 22.1 - 22.2
- Nov 14
- Mega-Section
Week 13: Variance by Conditioning and Random Vectors
- Nov 17
- Quiz Quiz 5, Day 1
- Nov 18
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- Lecture Variance by conditioning
- Ch 22.3 - 22.4
- Quiz Quiz 5, Day 2
- Nov 19
- Section
- Nov 20
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- Lecture Random vectors; the multivariate normal
- Ch 23
- Nov 21
- Mega-Section
Week 14: Simple Regression
- Nov 24
- Nov 25
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- Lecture Correlation and simple regression
- Ch 24
- Nov 26
- Thanksgiving Break
- Nov 27
- Thanksgiving Break
- Nov 28
- Thanksgiving Break
Week 15: Multiple Regression
- Dec 1
- Dec 2
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- Lecture Multiple regression I
- Ch 25.1 - 25.3
- Dec 3
- Section
- Dec 4
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- Lecture Multiple regression II
- Ch 25.4
- Dec 5
- Mega-Section
Week 16: Reading, Review, Recitation
- Dec 8
- RRR Week
- Dec 9
- RRR Week
- Dec 10
- RRR Week
- Dec 11
- RRR Week
- Dec 12
- RRR Week
Week 17: Final Exams
- Dec 19
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- Exam Final Exam
- 7PM - 10PM