HD 2930

Introduction to Data Science for Social Scientists

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Intro to Data Science for Social Scientists using R.

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (SBA-HE) (OPHLS-AG, SBA-AG)
Course Attribute (CU-UGR)

• Import data from various sources (existing datasets, web-scraping).
• Use principles of tidy data management (transposing, data types, formatting).
• Manipulate data to extract needed information.
• Visualize quantitative data using a large variety of design principles.
• Run simple classifiers on data for predictive purposes.

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