Schedule

Schedule for DS190, Capstone in Data Science, Pomona College, Fall 2026

Here is your roadmap for the semester!

On some days, there are assignments due. Pay attention to due dates as you are graded entirely on turning in assignments on time (reasonable person test).
You will give two presentations. One will be ~10 minutes, informal, and take place during regular class times. The final presentation will be ~20 minutes, more formal, and take place during reading days or during finals week.
Five class periods will be based on disciplinary data science ethics. You are expected to read the pre-class materials and be an active participant in the class discussion.
Attendance and class participation is mandatory.

date	topic	assignment	readings
Week 1 9.1.26	introductions + syllabus + logistics + pre-course survey		Introduction
Week 2 9.8.26	EDS - CS/engineering/chemistry Julie Modero	capstone topic	Reading 1 Reading 2
Week 3 9.15.26	EDS - philosophy Julie Tannenbaum	annotated bibliography	Reading 1 Reading 2
Week 4 9.22.26	check-ins + citations + scripting + Git		Writing & Presenting BibTeX example .bib file
Week 5 9.29.26	EDS - CARE & FAIR		Carroll, S. R., Rodriguez-Lonebear, D., & Martinez, A. (2019). Indigenous data governance: Strategies from United States Native Nations. Data Science Journal, 18(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2019-031 Carroll, S.R., Herczog, E., Hudson, M. et al. Operationalizing the CARE and FAIR Principles for Indigenous data futures. Sci Data 8, 108 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00892-0 Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. (n.d.). Introduction of An Introduction to Data Ethics. Santa Clara University. https://www.scu.edu/media/ethics-center/technology-ethics/IntroToDataEthics.pdf
Week 6 10.6.26	EDS - ecology Marty Meyer	1st outline	Reading 1 Reading 2
Week 7 10.13.26	presentations	section draft
Week 8 10.20.26	fall break no class meeting	one-on-one check-ins with Prof Hardin
Week 9 10.27.26	presentations
Week 10 11.3.26	presentations	introduction or 2nd section
Week 11 11.10.26	presentations	ethics component
Week 12 11.17.26	presentations
Week 13 11.24.26	Thanksgiving break no class meeting	project draft due Monday 11.23.26
Week 14 12.1.26	EDS - linguistics Ernesto Gutiérrez Topete		Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency,610–23. FAccT ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. Beacken, Gabrielle, and Matthias Becker. 2025. Chatbot Grok Doesn’t Glitch—It Reflects X. Tech Policy Press. Holliday, Nicole. 2025. If Not Language, Why Language-Shaped? TikTok video.
Week 15 12.8.26	wrap-up	final presentations	12.10.26 (2-5pm) or 12.14.26 (2-5pm)
12.14.26	final write-up	final write-up

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