POLI 137. A Sports Analytics Approach to the Social Sciences (4 units)
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Description
Sports analytics is a fast-growing field. It uses data and statistical methods to measure performance in competitive sports. The approach’s popularity has generated a wealth of data that can be used to shed light on social science questions in interesting ways. We will focus on topics such as violent behavior, discrimination, cultural/ethnic diversity, corruption, and cognitive biases using examples from baseball, basketball, figure skating, football, hockey, soccer, and sumo wrestling. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
POLI 137 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have POLI 137 as a prerequisite.