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= Course Overview and Learning Objectives = | = Course Overview and Learning Objectives = | ||
This is an exciting time to be a social scientist and especially a Communication scholar! An increasing amount of our lives---and our interactions---are stored digitally | This is an exciting time to be a social scientist and especially a Communication scholar! An increasing amount of our lives---and our interactions---are stored digitally. Social scientists are increasingly using that data to ask and answer questions about how the social world works. I firmly believe that computational tools have created a new frontier in the social sciences which those who develop computational skills can explore. | ||
This class is an introduction into that world. The course is intended to give students an introduction to programming principles, the Python programming language, and data science tools and approaches. However, this is not a computer science class or a statistics class, and '''no prior programming experience is required or expected.''' We will focus on gaining access to data and basic data manipulation rather than complex statistical methods. | This class is an introduction into that world. The course is intended to give students an introduction to programming principles, the Python programming language, and data science tools and approaches. However, this is not a computer science class or a statistics class, and '''no prior programming experience is required or expected.''' We will focus on gaining access to data and basic data manipulation rather than complex statistical methods. | ||
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* Identify multiple ways that computational approaches are being used for social science research. | * Identify multiple ways that computational approaches are being used for social science research. | ||
* Feel comfortable taking more advanced computational methods courses or learning new techniques on your own. | * Feel comfortable taking more advanced computational methods courses or learning new techniques on your own. | ||
= Required resources and texts = | = Required resources and texts = |