ASOK15630U Intro to R for Social Data Science
MA Research Methodology and Practice (MSC Curriculum 2015)
Course package (MSc 2015):
Welfare, inequality and mobility
Knowledge, organization and politics
Culture, lifestyle and everyday life
Credit students must be at master level.
Exchange students at both bachelor and master level can sign up for
this course.
R is free to use for everyone and powerful. It has become one of the most widely-used programming languages for statistical analyses in the social sciences and is, for this reason, a highly-sought skill among employers. R is probably more versatile than you imagine.
This course will teach you how to do (social) data science with R. You will learn how to get your data into shape, transform and manipulate it, visualize it, and how to statistically model it. The course will also briefly introduce you to logistic regression and multilevel modelling. Apart from these skills that are necessary for conducting classical statistics, you will also learn how to do reproducible research and report your results using R Markdown. Beware that this class presumes that you have a solid background in basic statistics (i.e., descriptive statistics and multiple OLS regression).
Knowledge:
- R programming language
- R Studio
- R Markdown
Skills:
- Students will be able to conduct statistical analyses with R.
- Students will be able to program their own R functions, loops and so on in R.
- Students will be able to prepare presentations and reports with R Markdown.
Competences:
- Students will increase their analytical and logical cognitive capacities.
- Students should be able to transform and manipulate data to prepare it for statistical analyses. They will be able to think about data in less narrow way, because R is more flexible than other statistical programming languages.
- Students should be able to conduct own research based on analyses for which they use R.
- Students should be able to prepare reproducible research reports and presentations with R Markdown.
The course is largely based on: Grolemund, G. & Wickham, H. (2017): R for Data Science. O’Reilly. This book is freely available at: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
Other useful books are:
Matloff, N. (2011): The Art of R Programming. No Starch Press
Teetor, P. (2011): R Cookbook. O’Reilly.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 107
- Exam
- 71
- Total
- 206
I give structured feedback to student presentations, and the final paper. Solutions to the class assignments will be presented as well.
Registration deadline for courses is:
June 1st for Autumn semester
December 1st for Spring semester.
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
Sociology- and anthropology Student:
Registration online at KUnet
International exchange students:
You must sign up by filling in an application form. Find it at
www.sociology.ku.dk.
Credit students:
Find more information at
www.soc.ku.dk under Uddannelse
-> Meritstuderende.
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignment, -Individual/group (max 4 students).
A written take-home essay is defined as an assignment that addresses one or more questions. The exam is based on the course syllabus, i.e. the literature set by the teacher. The students will need to write a dynamic R Markdown document analysing the European Social Survey, the Party Manifesto, and another data source.
The written take-home essay must be no longer than 10 pages. For group assignments, an extra 5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet. - Exam registration requirements
You must be registered for the course to take the exam.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
Find more information on your study page at KUnet.
Exchange students and Danish full degree guest students please see the homepage of Sociology;
www.sociology.ku.dk under Education --> Exams- Re-exam
Written assignment with one or more NEW questions.
Criteria for exam assesment
See learning outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- ASOK15630U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree MasterFull Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See timetable.
- Course capacity
- Vejl. 40 personer
- Study board
- Department of Sociology, Study Council
Contracting department
- Department of Sociology
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Merlin Schaeffer (4-726a78684578746833707a336970)
Lecturers
Merlin Schaeffer, e-mail: mesc@soc.ku.dk