Notes

The course consists of 2 hours of classes (lectures) every week and 2x2 hours every second week for 14 weeks.

  • Monday: programming
  • Thursday (odd weeks): lecture

Typeforms

http://www.typeform.com/

Programming

  • 14 weeks

Topics:

  1. Introduction to programming
  2. Introduction to R
  3. Reproducible research
  4. Data gathering
  5. Data manipulation
  6. Statistical learning / visualizations

Links:

http://lincolnmullen.com/courses/clio3.2014/

Programming sucks! http://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

Social Media Analysis and Computational Social Science http://people.cs.umass.edu/~brenocon/smacss2015/

stuff

How big data can spot unemployment before the government can

  • http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/06/how-big-data-can-spot-unemployment-before-the-government-can/

Surveys challenges

  • https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/06/03/remembering-iraq/

Substantial differences in public opinion when people are surveyed by phone versus online.

  • http://www.pewresearch.org/2015/05/13/from-telephone-to-the-web-the-challenge-of-mode-of-interview-effects-in-public-opinion-polls/

Brad DeLong thinks much of what economists now do will be superseded by data scientists and historians:

  • http://equitablegrowth.org/2015/06/01/brief-thoughts-barry-eichengreen-new-economic-thinking/

Google Data (Varian)

  • http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2015/primer.pdf

Toward Computational Social Science: Big Data in Digital Environments

  • http://ann.sagepub.com/content/659/1.toc

Trey Causey Software Skills

  • http://treycausey.com/software_dev_skills.html

Coder in Chief

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/9/7358111/barack-obama-coding

Data Science through the lens of Social Science

http://videolectures.net/kdd2014_conway_social_science/

Scraped Data and Sticky Prices

http://www.nber.org/papers/w21490?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntw

Benoit: Big Data

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lpw1Kim3y8&spfreload=10

- distinguish between big social data and big data about the physical world

Super Returns to Super Bowl Ads?

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2015/super.pdf