ECON 8730 - Coding in R for Policy Analytics

3.0 Credit Hours
Description
This course introduces students to the field of data science and its applications in the public and nonprofit sectors. Modern performance management and evaluation processes required strong data literacy and the ability to combine and analyze data from a variety of sources to inform managerial processes. This course offers a practical, tools-based approach that is designed to build strong foundations for people that want to work as analysts, data-driven mangers, or data-driven journalists. It will cover data programming fundamentals, visualizations, text analysis, automated reporting, and dynamic reporting using dashboards. The course is analytically rigorous, but no prior programming experience is assumed.