ECON 104
Data Science for Economists
Lecture.
Summer Session A 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 30 days ago.
Grades
3.08
Average grade awarded in ECON 104. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
34%
of the 3,226 letter grades
D, F or W
2.3%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
<1%
5 of 6 students passed
The registrar's own records: 3,226 grades over 17 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 17 terms ran 2.78 to 3.41.
Historical grades for BOSWELL, KIMBERLY SASHA-GAYE, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 147 · 7.1%
- A 290 · 14.0%
- A- 274 · 13.2%
- B+ 325 · 15.7%
- B 338 · 16.3%
- B- 259 · 12.5%
- C+ 155 · 7.5%
- C 207 · 10.0%
- C- 65 · 3.1%
- D+ 3 · 0.1%
- D 8 · 0.4%
- D- 1 · 0.0%
- F 4 · 0.2%
- P 1 of 2,086
- I 9 of 2,086
Percentages are of the 2,076 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P) and incompletes (I).
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
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOSWELL, KIMBERLY SASHA-GAYE reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.10 | 2,076 | 9 | 34% | light | Open, 21 seats left |
| ROJAS, RANDALL R reviews ↗ | 3.03 | 3.03 | 1,150 | 8 | 34% | average | 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.
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.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, said by 12 reviewers
- 3 projects, said by 9 reviewers
Read from 38 reviews 26 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 7 courses long before ECON 104. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for ECON 104 in Summer Session A 2026 and a department can change what it requires. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for MATH 170A and MATH 3B, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three hours; laboratory, one hour. Enforced requisites: courses 11, 103. Enforced corequisite: course 104L. In-depth discussion of multivariate regression. Introduction to estimation of multivariate regression, and confidence intervals and hypothesis tests in context of multivariate regression. Discussion of instrumental variables and binary choice models. Emphasis on hands-on experience on data analytics and real data applications. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session A 2026
Seat counts as of . That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MW 1:00pm-3:05pmOpen3.10predicted, this instructor · 2,076 grades
21 seats left. 79 of 100 enrolled -
not checked yet
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 93 and 340 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 207 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking ECON 104 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Summer Session A 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Boswell, K.S. · 79 of 100 enrolled
Unchanged over 3 minutes
Both readings say 79 of 100.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.