HD 2930 - Introduction to Data Science for Social Scientists

(crosslisted) PSYCH 2930
(SBA-HE) (CU-UGR)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

W. Hobbs.

Intro to Data Science for Social Scientists using R.

Outcome 1: Import data from various sources (existing datasets, web-scraping).

Outcome 2: Use principles of tidy data management (transposing, data types, formatting).

Outcome 3: Manipulate data to extract needed information.

Outcome 4: Visualize quantitative data using a large variety of design principles.

Outcome 5: Run simple classifiers on data for predictive purposes.