POLI 137A Sports Analytics Approach to the Social Sciences
Sports analytics is a fast-growing field. It uses data and statistical methods to measure performance in competitive sports. The approach’s popularity has generated a wealth of data that can be used to shed light on social science questions in interesting ways. We will focus on topics such as violent behavior, discrimination, cultural/ethnic diversity, corruption, and cognitive biases using examples from baseball, basketball, figure skating, football, hockey, soccer, and sumo wrestling.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- Political Science (Comparative Politics) (B.A.)
- Political Science (International Affairs)