MATH 118Mathematical Methods of Data Theory
Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to computational methods for data problems with focus on linear algebra and optimization. Matrix and tensor factorization, PageRank, assorted other topics in matrices, linear programming, unconstrained optimization, constrained optimization, integer optimization, dynamic programming, and stochastic optimization.
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Requisites
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Requisites: courses 42, 115A.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MATH 118
- MATH 42Introduction to Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling: Life, Universe, and Everything
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
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MATH 118
- MATH M148Experience of Data Science
- STATS M148Experience of Data Science
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.