Big Data and Computational Social Science

Training Provider: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Course Reference: TGS-2024043435
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About This Course

Big Data presents unprecedented opportunities to study human behaviour on a very large scale. It has been increasingly used in social science to reveal individual differences and group dynamics. This course will introduce students to new methods of using computational tools and Big Data to conduct social science research. This course introduces students to research methods in computational social sciences. Topics include characteristics of Big Data, collecting and analyzing online data, running online field experiments, etc.

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1) Describe the opportunities and challenges for social science in this digital age
2) Identify social science research questions that can be addressed by computational methods and big data
3) Apply techniques such as text mining and online experiments to answer social science research questions.

Course Details

Duration 13 hours
Language English
Training Commitment Not specified
Total Enrolled 19 students
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