Introduction to Quantitative Social Science

This course offers a friendly and practical introduction to data science for social science. Mathematical notation used in the course will be minimized. The course focuses on learning computing and programming tools for managing and analyzing data, as well as understanding the conceptual foundations behind different approaches to data analysis. By the end of the course, students should be able to summarize and visualize data, evaluate causal claims, use linear regression for data analysis, quantify uncertainty, and work with professional tools such as R and RStudio.