Politics & Data Science

About this course

Politics and data science is a combination that reflects one of the most significant developments in the contemporary study of society and governance: the increasing availability of large data sets and the computational tools to analyse them, and the transformative effect this is having on how political phenomena are studied and understood. Politics provides the substantive questions, about power, elections, public opinion, policy, conflict, and institutional behaviour, while data science provides the methods to examine those questions empirically and at scale. Together, the two disciplines equip you to engage with politics in a way that is both analytically rigorous and methodologically current. At Northeastern University London, this three-year, full-time programme develops your political knowledge and data science capabilities in an integrated curriculum. You will engage with the maj

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