Big Data and Machine Learning in Social Sciences with R

In the era of rapid availability and reliance on Big Data to make decisions in business, government, and society, the current use of the established statistical tools in the social sciences may not be adequate to handle the volume and complexity of such data to make accurate and useful inferences. This course provides a practical introduction of machine learning techniques in social sciences using the open-source R statistical platform.

What You'll Learn

In the era of rapid availability and reliance on Big Data to make decisions in business, government, and society, the current use of the established statistical tools in the social sciences may not be adequate to handle the volume and complexity of such data to make accurate and useful inferences. This course provides a practical introduction of machine learning techniques in social sciences using the open-source R statistical platform.