Introduction to Data Science for Behavioral and Educational Research

Harvard HGSE

This course introduces modern data science and machine learning tools for answering research questions in education and other social and behavioral sciences. We will focus first on how to craft research questions, identify useful data, wrangle/clean messy data, conduct simple descriptive analyses, and visualize/present complex data in useful ways. Next we cover machine learning tools; in this unit, we build and evaluate predictive models. Topics include cross-validation, data leakage, and…