Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

The module social analytics in context comprises preparation of a project concerning digital collaboration and contains data preparation and data analytics. The project must be carried out in collaboration with an organization or community.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

In this module students will acquire knowledge of:

• Dataset construction and data harvest, including its technical, ethical and legal implications
• Data relevant problems in organizations, including their relation to organizational culture and the wider ecology of methods available in the organization
• Data driven research designs and their implications for data needs and analysis.

Skills

In this module students will acquire skills in:

• Formulating data-driven questions that make sense in context, taking available data, existing knowledge practices and the strategic situation of the organization into account.
• Carrying out relevant data analysis
• Producing relevant data visualizations
• Narrating methods and findings in ways that make sense to the organization

Competences

In this module students will acquire competences in:

• The management of a data project, including its different stages, components and participants
• The translation of data projects into real world cases and contexts.

Exam

Exams