Data Engineering and Analysis

A course introducing the the full stack of tools in the data science
toolkit, from data collection to analysis, but with special emphasis on data wrangling.

Content

The explosion of digital data represents an unprecedented opportunity for social research!
However, fullly leveraging the information revolution requires not only downstream analytical
skills, such as data visualization and modeling, but also critical upstream skills of data collection,
cleaning, curation and wrangling. This course will cover the full stack of tools in the data science
toolkit, but with particular, hands-on emphasis on the upstream skills.

  • Coding Basics & Research Design
  • Data Collection
  • Data Wrangling & Curation
  • Data Cleaning
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Analysis
  • Presentation of Findings

Audience

This course was designed for undergraduate and graduate social science majors.

Requirements

No prerequisites and no prior coding experience are required.

Course Materials

YouTube Tutorials