ECON 5Data Analytics for the Social Sciences
(Cross-listed with POLI 5D.) Students engage in hands-on learning with applied social science problems. The course teaches the basics of data management and collection, data analysis, and data visualization. To perform these analyses, students learn how to code in various programming software, including Excel, Stata, and R. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: ECON 5, POLI 5, POLI 5D, ECON 5R.
Prerequisites
None listed in the catalog.
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 1 · Spring (1 program).
Required in (2)
- Business Economics
- Economics (B.S.)
One of the options in (2)
- Data Science (B.S.)
- Media Industries&Comm
Courses that list ECON 5 as a prerequisite (8)
- DSC 161 Text as Data
- ECON 121 Applied Econometrics and Data Analysis
- POLI 100X Data Analysis and United States Politics
- POLI 161 Research Design for Social Science
- POLI 170 Algorithms, Public Policy, and Ethics
- POLI 171 Making Policy with Data
- POLI 172 Advanced Social Data Analytics
- POLI 175 Machine Learning for Social Scientists