POL304H1F L5101
Topics in Methods
Using Data to Understand Politics and Society
Themes
Students will learn about role of data for understanding politics and society, and a wide
range of approaches to analyzing such data. How do information and data shape politics
and policies? What insights can we gain about contemporary and past societies from the data they produce? To answer these questions we will examine a series of methodological approaches to different types of political data, including text analysis, network analysis, spatial statistics, and time-series analysis. This course will draw from topics in the study of international relations, economics, political behavior, and statistics to over a diverse set of tools for processing and analyzing different types of data. Applications will include war and conflict, terrorism, international trade, social media, elections, and representation.
Texts
TBA
Format and Requirements
Combination of lectures, labs, and seminars/workshops.
Prerequisites
POL232H1 or equivalent