PUB PLC M276AIntroduction to Programming and Data Management
Public Policy · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Education M260A.) Fundamental skills of data management. Development of strong foundation in R programming language. R is most popular language for statistical analysis and one of most popular languages for data science applications (e.g., web-scraping, interactive maps, network analysis). Students become proficient in data management and R programming through weekly problem sets, completed in groups. No prior experience with R required.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
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.
PUB PLC M276A
- PUB PLC M276BFundamentals of Programming
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.