DS BMED 200Foundations of Data Science
Data Science in Biomedicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Study offers background in mathematical and engineering foundations that are building blocks of data science. Topics include linear algebra, probability, and statistics. Overview of science software engineering and reproducibility fundamentals including working on a compute cluster, pipeline development, virtual notebooks, version control.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Preparation: familiarity with programming and algorithms, probability, statistics, linear algebra.
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
DS BMED 200
- DS BMED 205Machine Learning Applications in Biomedicine
- DS BMED 206Advanced Machine Learning Applications in Biomedicine
- DS BMED 207Data Science for Medical Imaging
- DS BMED 208Recent Research in Machine Learning in Medicine
- DS BMED 209Recent Research in Data Science in Genomic Medicine
- DS BMED 218Applied Data Science in Genomics and Biomedicine
- DS BMED 219Data Science Algorithms in Biomedicine
- DS BMED 220Data Science in Biomedicine Supervised Project
8 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 8 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.