UCLA MSC IND 155: Music and Data Science

You are looking at Summer Session C 2026. That term is over, so these are last term's numbers rather than seats you can take. dibs holds 3 sections for Summer Session C 2026, read 29 days ago. Separately, it has finished 400 of the 3,592 courses on its current checking list for this term. Future-term coverage is incomplete, so a course with nothing here may simply not have been reached yet. Back to Fall 2026

Sections & times

Grades

3.77

Average grade awarded in MSC IND 155. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.

In the A range

84%

of the 19 letter grades

D, F or W

0.0%

of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals

Taken pass/no pass

the registrar has this letter grade only this term

The registrar's own records: 19 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.

What is inside that record

No summer session is in that record.

The table below splits them.

Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.

A+ 10 · 52.6%
A 6 · 31.6%
B 1 · 5.3%
B- 1 · 5.3%
C 1 · 5.3%

Percentages are of the 19 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.

How the non-letter outcomes are counted

They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Predicted GPA, raw average, sample size, terms, A range and the workload reviewers reported for every instructor with a grade record in this course
Instructor	Predicted GPA	Raw	n	Terms	A range	Workload	Summer Session C 2026
HODGSON, THOMAS EDWARD reviews ↗	3.79	3.77	19 ·	1	84%	-	not teaching it

Why Predicted is not the Raw average

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.

Reviews for MSC IND 155

Workload and assignments

Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.

dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.

Read the source reviews

From the registrar's catalog

Seminar, three hours. Introduction to data science for music professionals. History of charts, jukeboxes, Nielsen, Sound Scan, and advances in monitoring of music consumption. Impact of data technologies, and rise of data analytics in Internet era. Statistics and programming for musicians. Social media and fan engagement. Students learn to gather, process, and act on complex streams of consumption data, media analytics. Implications for monetization of musical creativity, management of intellectual property. Basic programming experience is recommended to make best use of course. Letter grading.

Sections in Summer Session C 2026

dibs has not read Summer Session C 2026 for this course, so it cannot say whether it runs. dibs reads the term you are enrolling in first and the rest a little at a time; the registrar's own listing is the answer until this one catches up.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

What taking MSC IND 155 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.

Write a review

Your experience could be the first.

No student reviews are available to read on dibs for this course yet. Took it? Tell the next person what helped, what was hard, and how you spent your time.

Looking for more perspectives?

External reviews are separate and do not count toward the dibs rating.

Read reviews on BruinWalk

Community guidelines