Big Data Analytics for Policy and Government. 3 credits

Catalog description

Big data provides an exciting resource for policy and government. However, while their use in this context brings opportunities, it also creates unique analytical and computational needs and challenges. This course provides a fundamental understanding of these issues, and the tools and techniques used for big data analysis. Methods covered in the course include network analysis, geo-spatial computation, unstructured content mining, and supervised and unsupervised machine learning.Offered by Schar Public Policy/Admin. May not be repeated for credit.