Big Data for Big Policy Problems
Programming Instructor, Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Management, 2024
This course introduces to substantive topics related to inequality, health and criminal justice while also providing students with exposure to the programming language R for conducting social science research. By learning theory about policy issues in parallel with technical skills for data analysis, Big Data for Big Policy Problems gives undergraduate students an opportunity to learn how sociologists and economists conceptualize research questions and translate them into empirical studies.