Numbers are now everywhere: the economy, health, education, sport, politics... Few spheres of our existence can claim to resist the contemporary quantitative deluge of Big Data. But what is the purpose of this data? How can they be used in a reasoned way? And how has the current place of numbers in our society developed historically? Numbers, in their statistical and probabilistic forms, have for centuries accompanied the development of both the State and Science.
This multidisciplinary course (history, anthropology, sociology, demography and statistics) will offer both a reflective approach to the tools, methods and reasoning of quantification and a practical application to real data, based on the tools of data science. A wide range of advanced and directly operational data analysis techniques will be presented.
Through the questions it raises and the statistical tools it presents, this course provides an in-depth introduction to the problems of statistics, both official and private, and quantitative social sciences.
- Teaching coordinator: Amossé Thomas
- Teaching coordinator: Beaurepaire Camille