Social Data Science

UCLA SOCIOL 114 (Winter ’25)

Together, we will use tools from data science to answer social science questions. As an area of application, we will focus on questions about inequality and social stratification.

Learning goals

As a result of participating in this course, students will be able to

  • visualize economic inequality with graphs that summarize survey data
  • connect theories about inequality to quantitative empirical evidence
  • evaluate the effects of hypothetical interventions to reduce inequality
  • conduct data analysis using the R programming language
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