Informatics 490C - Intro/Social&CulturalAnalytics

This course introduces the use of computational methods for studying culture and society. We will learn how to transform textual and visual material into data, and how we can explore and analyze this data using machine learning and statistical models as both quantitative and qualitative tools. We will also survey and discuss how these methods are applied within the humanities and social sciences, as well as reflect on the challenges, limitations, and ethical issues that arise in the computational study of culture and society. This course counts as an Elective toward the INFORM major.

Open to INFORM majors. INFO 248 w/ C FOR SPRING 2022 ONLY, CS MAJORS MAY COUNT INFO 490C AS AN OUTSIDE ELECTIVE FOR THE BS-CS CURRICULUM. PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR IF NOT MEETING PREREQUISITE. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ON-LINE FORM: https://www.cics.umass.edu/overrides.