LSE DS202 – Data Science for Social Scientists

2024/25 Winter Term

Author

Dr. Ghita Berrada

Important

🚧 This website is under construction. Pages will keep being updated in the next few weeks!

Note

🥐 Releases for this week:

  • The solutions for the W04 lab are out: check out them out here
  • The complete W04 lecture notebook (i.e fully annotated and with no holes) is up on the website
  • The timing of release of the scikit-learn Pipelines tutorial has been revised so that you have accumulated enough knowledge by the time of the release to be able to make the most use of the Pipelines feature. See updated 📓 Syllabus
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🧑🏻‍🏫 Our Team

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Dr. Ghita Berrada
Assistant Professor of Data Science (Education)
LSE Data Science Institute
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COURSE CONVENOR LECTURER
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Tabtim Duenger
Data Scientist at The Economist
MSc in Applied Social Data Science (LSE)
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CLASS TEACHER
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Andreas Stöffelbauer
Data Scientist at Microsoft
MSc in Data Science (LSE)
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CLASS TEACHER
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Dr Stuart Bramwell
Guest Lecturer at the Data Science Institute
DPhil in Politics (Oxford University)
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CLASS TEACHER
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Yassine Lahna
Data Scientist
MSc in Statistical Science (Oxford University)
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CLASS TEACHER
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Sara Luxmoore
Research Officer
LSE Data Science Institute and LSE Cities
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SUPPORT SESSIONS

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Kevin Kittoe
Teaching and Learning Administrator
LSE Data Science Institute
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ADMIN

📍 Lecture

  • 📆 Fridays*
  • ⌚ 14:00 - 16:00
  • 📍 CKK.LG.09 (🗺️ campus map)
  • Lecturer:
    • 👩🏻‍🏫 Ghita

* except Week 06 - Reading Week

💻 Class Groups

Group 01

  • 📆 Mondays
  • ⌚ 09:00 - 10:30
  • 📍 FAW.3.04
  • 🧑‍🏫 Andreas*

* except Week 01 (Tabtim)

Group 02

  • 📆 Mondays
  • ⌚ 13:00 - 14:30
  • 📍 FAW.3.04
  • 🧑‍🏫 Stuart


Group 03

  • 📆 Mondays
  • ⌚ 15:00 - 16:30
  • 📍 FAW.3.04
  • 🧑‍🏫 Tabtim

* except Week 01 (Andreas)

Group 04

  • 📆 Mondays
  • ⌚ 16:30 - 18:00
  • 📍 FAW.3.04
  • 🧑‍🏫 Yassine


🛟 Additional weekly support sessions

Every week, we will offer drop-in sessions (no booking required) where you can get help with the week’s homework or with an upcoming assessment, ask questions about the lectures and classes, or simply chat with your peers and teachers.

  • 📆 Wednesdays
  • ⌚ 10.00-11.30
  • 📍 COL.1.06 (Visualisation Studio)
  • 🧑‍🏫 Sara