Fall 2026

Social Media Analytics

LSC 460 teaches social media analytics, focusing on collecting and analyzing data to evaluate impact on consumer choices and public opinion.

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Summary

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Historical reviews of Kaiping Chen: The workload is dominated by group projects, which reviewers found to be a significant portion of the course structure.

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Prerequisites

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Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning A or graduate/professional standing

    • Quantitative Reasoning A
    • graduate/professional standing
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LSC 460

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  • Any of
    • Quantitative Reasoning A
    • graduate/professional standing

Professors

Fall 2026

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical instructor Kaiping Chen is described as passionate and personable, though her instructions and presentations are sometimes unclear. Her teaching strengths include enthusiasm, while the main concern is clarity in delivery.

KAIPING CHEN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

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Historical reviews of Kaiping Chen: The course is group-project heavy and can be boring or confusing, but is recommended for students who enjoy RStudio.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.92 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=61 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=77 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=75 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Kaiping Chen: The workload is dominated by group projects, which reviewers found to be a significant portion of the course structure.

Historical reviews of Kaiping Chen: A reviewer recommends the course for RStudio lovers, though they found the content sometimes boring and the instructions unclear.

Topics

  • Impact on consumer choices and public opinion
  • Social media platform metrics
  • Strategic communication for clients and policymakers

Skills

  • Collecting and analyzing social media data
  • Applying platform-specific metrics
  • Developing strategic communication recommendations

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance 
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