Data science is a field with goals overlapping with many disciplines, in particular, mathematics, statistics, algorithms, engineering, or optimization theory. It also has wide applications to a number of scientific areas such as natural sciences, social sciences, life sciences, business, or medicine. Data science has become an integral part of many research projects and started affecting social science reaches. The promise of the “big data” revolution is that in these data are the answers to fundamental questions of businesses, governments, and social sciences such as political science and sociology. Most importantly, these quantitative techniques provide ``better predictions'' across different systems. Many of the most astonishing results come from computational fields, which have little experience with the difficulty of social scientific inquiry. As social scientists, we have an extensive experience and observations of our own research fields and we can utilize the advance of these new computational methods to our studies.


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2018年第一學期