Socio-Informatics 348

Computational Social Science

This module introduces students to the inter-disciplinary field of computational social science, which combines insights from computer and information science, sociology and social network analysis, economics, political science, and public health in order to equip students to answer social science questions using computational methods.

Students are not expected to have any prior computer programming knowledge. Students will learn to ask social science questions, and answer these questions by collecting and analysing data from digital sources. Students will acquire skills in data analysis programming languages and in data analysis techniques for working with digital trace data.