STATS 184 · STAT 184Societal Impacts of Data
Statistics · 2 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Consideration of impacts that data collected today have upon individuals and society. Rapid increase in scale and types of data collected has impacted commerce and society in new ways. Consideration of economic, social and ethical, legal and political impacts of data, especially that collected on human behavior. Topics include privacy and data protection, intellectual property and confidentiality, sample selection and algorithms, equality and anti-discrimination.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 101A, 101C or Mathematics 156.
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STATS 184
- STATS 101AIntroduction to Data Analysis and Regression
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
- STATS 15Introduction to Data Science
- PSYCH 100APsychological Statistics
- PSYCH 10Introductory Psychology
- STATS 20Introduction to Statistical Programming with R
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studiesanother path to it
- STATS 101CIntroduction to Statistical Models and Data Mining
- STATS 21Python and Other Technologies for Data Science
- STATS 100AIntroduction to Probability
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- COMPTNG 10AIntroduction to Programming
- MATH 115ALinear Algebra
- COMPTNG 16APython with Applications I
- MATH 164Optimization
- MATH 170AProbability Theory I
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