FASS launches social data analytics minor with panel discussion event

Data underpins today’s world. Websites track our virtual movements and shopping habits and social interactions with friends and family. Even in the “real world”, street cameras track social distancing in public spaces. Simon Fraser University’s new minor in social data analytics (SDA) is the only degree program of its kind in Canada to provide the skills to effectively navigate, analyze and communicate “big data” in a social science context.

On August 12^th, SFU students joined a Zoom panel event to hear about the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ (FASS’) new social data analytics (SDA) minor, jointly organized by the Departments of Economics, Linguistics, Philosophy and Political Science. They also listened to four SFU alumni from those departments who use social data analytics and social data science in their careers.

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