COSC 401 Computational Social Science
The course is concerned with using computational approaches to study social phenomena and address important questions in social science. The course provides an overview of the computational social science field and use of data science techniques for computational social research. The course covers various techniques for data analysis of digital traces of people in social media, telecommunication and clickstreams as well as web-based social experiments that can be conducted at a large scale. The topics covered include overview of computational social science, data analysis of digital traces and clickstreams, design of social web-based experiments, data analysis of mobile phones and wearable sensors data, data analysis of social media data, and data science crowdsourcing techniques.
Prerequisite
COSC 312, COSC 410