GOVT-470 Introduction to Applied Political Data Science (3)

This course introduces concepts and techniques required to engage in modern applied political data analysis. Data science is often described as the intersection of statistics, programming, and substantive knowledge. This course develops skills in the first two, with application to questions in applied politics. Modern political data come from large-scale experiments, text, networks, and other survey and administrative sources. Students develop skills in data wrangling, visualization, collaborative version control, package building, statistical modeling, and scientific presentation. Crosslist: GOVT-670. Usually Offered: spring. Grading: A-F only.