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This course highlights the research in analysis for social data and builds skills to undertake those analysis. It is a lab-intensive course intended to build up data analytic skills for novice and intermediate researchers. Students look at recent studies using "big data" which are primarily theoretical, including critiques of data analytics and concerns surrounding data ethics. Students learn a programming language — Python — and how to scrape social data, store and collect it, run basic statistics, generate visuals, and create a report based on a project of interest. [24P]