Бакалавриат
2022/2023
Нереактивные и большие данные в социальных науках: методы и подходы
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Социология)
Направление:
39.03.01. Социология
Кто читает:
Департамент социологии
Где читается:
Факультет социальных наук
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1 модуль
Формат изучения:
с онлайн-курсом
Онлайн-часы:
20
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Михайлова Оксана Рудольфовна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
36
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The growth of Internet penetration and the possibility of collecting and analyzing big data have produced new challenges and have offered new opportunities for researchers and official statistics. Within several years nonreactive and big data has become the main trend in the social sciences. Nonreactive methods include nonparticipant observation and analysis of digital fingerprints such as likes or shares, as well as private documents such as blogs, social media profiles and comments, or public online documents such as mass media materials. This course will give an introduction to key quantitative approaches to the collection of nonreactive data in social sciences. The course is taught in the form of lectures, seminars, and individual work using R studio. All teaching is conducted in English. The goal of the course is to introduce the opportunities of nonreactive and big data for social scientists and learn basic methods and tools to collect nonreactive data. Within the course some R studio packages will be used for data analysis. Basic knowledge of quantitative sociological methods is required. Familiarity with R studio is very helpful but not required. To run R studio, install it or use cloud version (freely available at: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/).
Learning Objectives
- Know basic methods of collecting nonreactive data in social sciences
- Know different types of big data in social sciences
- Skills to collect online data (Wikipedia, YouTube, etc).
- Skills to anaylze textual data
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Have skills to analyze textual data
- Have skills to scrap online data through various API, automatization of actions in browser etc
- Know basic concepts of Big data, its opportunities, limitations, and relevance to social sciences
- Know basic concepts of R programming language
Course Contents
- Introduction to the course and the basics of harvest package
- Cleaning data, making basic analytics and vizualizing
- YouTube and Reddit scraping
- Textual analysis
Interim Assessment
- 2022/2023 1st module0.15 * Homework + 0.15 * Homework + 0.3 * Homework + 0.3 * Homework + 0.1 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Big Data analytics with R : utilize R to uncover hidden patterns in your Big Data, Walkowiak, S., 2016
- Machine learning : beginner's guide to machine learning, data mining, big data, artificial intelligence and neural networks, Trinity, L., 2019
- Text analysis for the social sciences : methods for drawing statistical inferences from texts and transcripts, , 1997
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Big data in complex and social networks, , 2017