SemesterSpring Semester, 2021
DepartmentFreshman Class of BA in Global Governance
Course NameBig Data for Social Analysis
InstructorPien Chung-pei
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule







Week 1: Introduction and R Installation (2021/2/26)



 



Introduction: Data analysis, statistics, and social science



 



Section 1: Basic Statistical Knowledge for Data Analysis



 



Week 2: Descriptive Statistics (2021/3/5)



 



Chapter 4, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



Chapter 5 & 7 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Week 3: Probability (2021/3/12)



Chapter 5 & 7 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Week 4: Inferential Statistics and Hypothesis Testing (2021/3/19)



 



Chapter 6, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



Chapter 5 & 7 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Week 5: T-test, Correlation, and AVOVA (2021/3/26)



 



Chapter 6, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



 



Week 6: Spring Break (2021/4/2)



 



 



Week 7: Regression Analysis: I (2021/4/9)



 



Chapter 6, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



Chapter 7, 8 & 13 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Week 8: Regression Analysis: II (2021/4/16)



 



Chapter 6, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



Chapter 7, 8 & 13 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Section 2: Kaohsiung Data Project and R



 



Week 9: Data Exploration (2021/4/23)



 



Using basic statistical knowledge to analyze Kaohsiung Data



 



Week 10: Midterm (2020/4/30)



 



Week 11: Regular Expressions (2020/5/7)



 



Simple Tutorial on Regular Expressions and String Manipulations in R: https://www.hackerearth.com/zh/practice/machine-learning/advanced-techniques/regular-expressions-string-manipulation-r/tutorial/



 



Online Lessonhttp://regexone.com/



 



Week 12: Loop and Data Cleaning (2021/5/14)



 



Chapter 3, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



Chapter 4 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Managing Data Frames with the dplyr package:



https://bookdown.org/rdpeng/rprogdatascience/managing-data-frames-with-the-dplyr-package.html



 



Week 13: Web Crawler (2020/5/21)



 



Week 14: Data Visualization (2020/5/28)



 



Chapter 5, Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



 



Chapter 6 & 19 in Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition



 



Section 3: Advanced Data Projects



 



Week 15: Corporate Structure Analysis (2020/6/4)



Dun and Bradstreet Database, Social Network Analysis, Data Visualization



 



Week 16: 2020 US Election in Twitter (2020/6/11)



 



Twitter API, Text Mining, Term Frequency, Term Association, Word Cloud, Emotion Analysis



 



Week 17: Final Proposal Report (2020/6/18)



 



 




 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

TBA


Requirement/Grading

  1. Attendance (10%)

  2. Assignments (20%)

  3. Midterm exam (25%)

  4. Project Proposal (10%)

  5. Final Paper (35%)


Textbook & Reference

Hui, Eric Goh Ming. 2019. Learn R for Applied Statistics: With Data Visualizations, Regressions, and Statistics. Apress



Kabacoff, Robert. 2015. R in Action, Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Manning Publications; 2 edition


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