Social Data Science
UCLA SOCIOL 114 (Winter ’26)
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
- 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
Team
Ian Lundberg
ianlundberg@ucla.edu
(he / him)
Working with data to understand inequality brings me joy and meaning, as I first discovered as a college student years ago. I hope to share that joy with you! Other joys of mine include hiking, surfing, and oatmeal with blueberries.