DSCI at Rice University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate DSCI coursework.

• STAT 311Honors Probability and Mathematical Statisticsopens 12 courses (6 directly)
• STAT 405R for Data Scienceopens 8 courses (2 directly)
• ELEC 478Introduction to Machine Learningopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• COMP 540Statistical Machine Learningopens 6 courses (4 directly)
• ELEC 578Introduction to Machine Learningopens 6 courses (3 directly)
• STAT 613Statistical Machine Learningopens 6 courses (3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate DSCI work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 39 DSCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 2 more DSCI courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on DSCI, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in DSCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at DSCI 400

  1. ELEC 478Introduction to Machine Learning
  2. COMP 540Statistical Machine Learning
  3. DSCI 400Data Science and Machine Learning Self-guided Capstone Laboratory

• 4 courses deep, ending at DSCI 415

  1. DSCI 301Probability and Statistics for Data Science
  2. STAT 311Honors Probability and Mathematical Statistics
  3. STAT 405R for Data Science

• 3 courses deep, ending at DSCI 302

  1. COMP 330Tools and Models for Data Science
  2. DSCI 302Introduction to Data Science Tools and Models

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for DSCI yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under DSCI yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

DSCI does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Rice campus feed.