Bostonography
Data are everywhere: news media fill stories with supporting statistics, advertisers use our browsing history to offer products, public agencies project society’s future needs, politicians make speeches and write bills, the public votes, and we all use social media. How can we use these data to learn more about society? Exploring complex data and learning from it requires a number of skills that students develop in this class, through the lens of Boston.
Laura K. Nelson
Assistant Professor of Sociology
I use computational methods to study social movements, culture, gender, institutions, and the history of feminism. I’m particularly interested in developing transparent and reproducible text analysis methods for sociology using open-source tools.