ECON 104
Data Science for Economists
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 217 · 6.7%
- A 431 · 13.4%
- A- 451 · 14.0%
- B+ 511 · 15.8%
- B 523 · 16.2%
- B- 387 · 12.0%
- C+ 258 · 8.0%
- C 272 · 8.4%
- C- 103 · 3.2%
- D+ 17 · 0.5%
- D 21 · 0.7%
- D- 6 · 0.2%
- F 29 · 0.9%
- P 5 of 3,242
- NP 1 of 3,242
- I 10 of 3,242
Percentages are of the 3,226 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), 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 | Spring 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOSWELL, KIMBERLY SASHA-GAYE reviews ↗ | 3.10 | 3.10 | 2,076 | 9 | 34% | light | not teaching it |
| 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 Spring 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.
In Springs
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Springs.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
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 Spring 2026
From the people who took it
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