Regression on social data
Explain a social variable by regression on a public survey and discuss the limits.
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Social Data Scientist
Social science profiles drawn to programming and data.
Python, methods and statistics in the social sciences, then network analysis, simulation, big data and AI ethics.
243hours of coursework
25weeks at 10 h
3steps
15courses
3universities
Target skills
Data CleansingWeb ScrapingDatabasesSocial SciencesData ProcessingRestful APIXMLDatabase DesignJSONDebuggingData StructuresWeb Services
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Social data scientist
- Social media analyst
- Computational social science researcher
Progression
- 1University of MichiganBeginnerPython, SQL, SQLite
Stated prerequisites: No prerequisites; designed as an on-ramp to programming
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python) Beginner 17 h 4.8 (233,775) Python Data Structures Beginner 20 h 4.9 (97,365) Using Python to Access Web Data Beginner 19 h 4.8 (44,591) Using Databases with Python Beginner 14 h 4.8 (21,659) Capstone: Retrieving, Processing, and Visualizing Data with Python Beginner 9 h 4.7 (14,483) - 2University of AmsterdamBeginnerR Programming
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Quantitative Methods Beginner 30 h 4.7 (2,441) Qualitative Research Methods Intermediate 27 h 4.6 (1,423) Basic Statistics Beginner 17 h 4.6 (4,688) Inferential Statistics — 15 h 4.4 (615) Methods and Statistics in Social Science - Final Research Project Beginner 18 h 4.4 (71) - 3University of California, DavisBeginnerIBM Watson
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Computational Social Science Methods Beginner 11 h 4.7 (357) Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics Beginner 9 h 4.6 (784) Social Network Analysis Beginner 10 h 4.7 (248) Computer Simulations Beginner 13 h 4.5 (87) Computational Social Science Capstone Project Intermediate 14 h 4.7 (44)
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Free textbooks
Python for EverybodyCharles R. SeveranceFree, CC BY 4.0
Introduction to Sociology 3eOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
OpenIntro StatisticsD. Diez, M. Çetinkaya-Rundel, C. BarrFree PDF