Summer Course on Social Data and Analysis Offered for First Summer Session

Organizations in diverse industries are hiring data scientists in a hurry. Labor market experts project a sizable gap between supply and demands in terms of recruiting talents with data analytic skills. SOCI 3303/3301 Social Data and Analysis offers a powerful and timely class to fulfill such increasing needs of data scientists. This five-week summer session course starts with basic statistics, moving on to univariate statistics (central tendency and dispersion measures) and completing with bivariate statistics (crosstab, ANOVA).

To learn such critical skills of data analytics, take the class SOCI 3303/3301 Social Data and Analysis during the first summer session from May 30 to June 30.

This is an in-person class, but students can elect to take it remotely using class webpage for lecture notes and Zoom live. This is a four-credit-hour class that has a lecture (SOCI 3303: teaching statistical skills) and the lab (SOCI 3301: teaching statistical package SPSS). It has a prerequisite, General Sociology SOCI 2013, or with instructor consent. The course basically welcomes anybody who is interested in the subject.

More questions before making a decision? Feel free to contact the course instructor, Song Yang, professor of sociology and criminology, via email at yangwang@uark.edu, or call our office at 479-575-3205. I look forward to seeing you in the class.