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COGS 9Introduction to Data Science

4 units · COGS · UC San Diego

Concepts of data and its role in science will be introduced, as well as the ideas behind data-mining, text-mining, machine learning, and graph theory, and how scientists and companies are leveraging those methods to uncover new insights into human cognition.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

None listed in the catalog.

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 1 · Fall (1 program).

Required in (1)

  • Data Science (B.S.)

One of the options in (5)

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science (B.S.)
  • Computer Science with Specialization in Bioinformatics (B.S.)
  • Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts (VA29)
  • Media Industries&Comm