Economics with Data Science

About this course

Economics has always been concerned with understanding how societies allocate scarce resources, how markets function, and how policy shapes outcomes for individuals and communities. In recent decades, the discipline has been transformed by the availability of large datasets and the tools to analyse them, making data science not just a useful complement to economics but an increasingly essential part of it. A degree that combines the two equips you to ask the right economic questions and to answer them with rigour and evidence. At the University of Southampton, this three-year programme gives you training in economic theory and quantitative methods alongside modern skills in data science, including statistical analysis, programming, and the techniques used to handle and interpret large and complex datasets. You will learn to think like an economist, building models of behaviour and evalu

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