Geographers:
The department head in Anthropology will be offering the following course on big data in the social sciences next semester. Looks like an interesting course.
RK
Dear Ron
I am teaching a course this year that I have taught in previous years as “Big-Data social sciences,” where we do everything from map obesity by county in the U.S., to text-mine tweets from the 2016 election, analyze data from the world values survey and/or the ethnographic atlas, and more. We work in the freely-available package R Studio, but the only requirement is a laptop – no programming experience is required. We also discuss essential theories in this field of research, from social network analysis to culture evolution and basic sentiment analysis of text.
It is now called “Big-data anthropology,” (attached flier) but essentially the same course.
I am trying to get the word out – I wondered if this course might interest any of your students in Geography?
Thanks!
Alex
Prof. Alex Bentley
Head of Anthropology
University of Tennessee
1621 Cumberland Avenue
502 Strong Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-1525
865-974-1853
www.alex-bentley.com