PSYCH 2945

Data Science for Social Scientists II

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This is a course on applications of data science in social science using R. We will cover fundamentals of statistical and causal inference, exploratory data analysis and data reduction, supervised learning, and recent, prominent applications of machine learning in social science.

Prerequisites Recommended prerequisite: HD 2930.

Distribution Requirements (OPHLS-AG), (SBA-HE)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2022SP, 2021SP

Outcomes

• Define a population of interest and quantity of interest, then sample, aggregate, and transform data to study them.
• Summarize and visualize text and network data.
• Conduct exploratory analyses in high-dimensional data.
• Implement and evaluate classifiers.
• Implement and evaluate classifiers.

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