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Content More and more data is being collected about us and our activities. Our social media interactions and our online search and shopping behaviour, but also offline location tracking and sensor and surveillance networks are all generating large, often real-time data sets. Potentially, these could help answer important questions facing society today. But processing them productively represents a real challenge, at the interface of social and computer science. Meeting that challenge requires not only thorough comprehension of the methodologies involved in analysing big data, but also a theoretical understanding of societal problems and, not least, the associated legal and ethical factors.
Who should join this course? Students of Social Sciences, Computer and Information Science and Humanities. Since some understanding of social scientific approaches is required, you should previously have studied research methods and methodology.
Excursions Visits to organizations employing data analytical techniques in a social context, such as traffic regulation, communications and government.
Course information
Course level: Advanced Bachelor/Master/PhD
Lecturers: Prof. Peter Groenewegen, Dr. Wouter van Atteveldt, Dr. Ivar Vermeulen, Dr. Iina Hellsten, Dr. Lora Aroyo, Dr. Christine Moser
Tuition fee: €950
Dr. Christine Moser
Assistant Professor
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Organization Sciences
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