Social Data Science (1 Year)

Central European University (CEU)

Overview

The Social Data Science (1 Year) at Central European University (CEU)  offers advanced training in three ways: via a methodological training in Data Science, students will learn the core and advanced mathematical, statistical and computational tools to collect, curate, manage, and analyze massive datasets of human actions and interactions.

Outcome

The program will provide two tracks for participating students: i) academic and ii) applied social data science training with different weights to academic and practical skills. The program will provide the following knowledges, skills, and competences.The students will acquire knowledge

• of an arsenal of tools of quantitative and data-driven approaches to study social phenomena;
• of the fairness and biases of social data science methods;
• of the legal and ethical framework of data collection and analysis in social sciences, including specificities of Big Data;
• about main concepts, ideas and challenges in at least one field of social sciences, as well as the important special quantitative and qualitative methods;
• of the new possibilities that socially related Big Data types enable for studying contemporary problems in business and academic research;
• to identify the societal potential of and challenges to working with Big Data.