CSE 158Recommender Systems and Web Mining

4 units · CSE · UC San Diego

Current methods for data mining and predictive analytics. Emphasis is on studying real-world data sets, building working systems, and putting current ideas from machine learning research into practice.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “CSE 12 or DSC 40B and CSE 15L or CSE 29 or DSC 80 and BENG 100 or BENG 134 or COGS 118D or CSE 103 or ECE 109 or ECON 120A or MAE 108 or MATH 180A or MATH 180B or MATH 181A or MATH 183 or MATH 186; restricted to students within the CS25, CS26, CS27, CS29, EC26, and DS25 majors. All other students will be allowed as space permits. May be coscheduled with CSE 258. Students may not receive credit for CSE 158 and CSE 158R or DSC 148.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Spring (1 program).

One of the options in (2)

Artificial Intelligence
Data Science (B.S.)

What it opens up

Courses that list CSE 158 as a prerequisite (6)

COGS 118A Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms
COGS 118B Introduction to Machine Learning
COGS 118D Computational Modeling and Analysis of Human Behavior
COGS 181 Neural Networks and Deep Learning
COGS 182 Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
DSC 180A Data Science Project I