Analytics for Social Good

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students use analytical skills to address important issues in areas like healthcare, disaster relief, food rescue, ethical use of data, and fair resource allocation. It explores the core of analytics and its potential to bring about positive change. The curriculum covers various analytics applications, showing how data-driven insights can be applied to solve humanitarian challenges. The course provides a foundation for using analytics for social good, starting with basic principles and concepts like data gathering, cleaning, visualization, predictive modeling, machine learning, optimization, geospatial analytics, and ethical considerations. The course emphasizes hands-on learning with real-world case studies, demonstrating the value of data nalytics for social causes. Students will gain practical experience using Excel and Python.