ECON 412Fundamentals of Big Data
Economics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Economics students. Introduction to basic concepts, uses, and challenges of big data, with emphasis on pragmatic hands-on applications using real-world data for current and future big data practitioners—consumers of big data insights for economic applications.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
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.
ECON 412
- ECON 413Data Analytics and Big Data
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.