智慧政務

3 學分

This course introduces a broad overview of big data sources, opportunities and examples in social studies, and illustrate how they can be used to improve social science studies. The focus is placed on selected topics related to computational social science and their applications, such as the collection and analysis of unstructured and structured web data. The methods will be demonstrated mostly in R.

The course can be helpful for both of social science students who want to extend their research scope and science students who are interested in doing more social science.

3 學分

This course is designed to teach students analytical techniques of dealing with open government data and other (usually big) data that are related to smart governance. We will focus on two types of data: text data and geo-spatial data.

Digitalized text represents an important source of data for social scientists. This is particularly true in political science, where a large amount of political information, otherwise difficult to analyze, is embodied in historical and contemporary speeches and documents that can be converted into digitalized text with increasing ease. Another source of text-based data come from online contents.

3 學分

This course introduces students to the theories and techniques of data analysis for monitoring and understanding media behavior and public opinion.

While theories of statistics, communication, media effects, and public opinion will be reviewed, the emphasis is on hands-on analysis and presentation of data. The objectives are two-fold 1) facilitate data-based policy making and decision making in government and cooperate settings; 2) facilitate data-based theory building in both applied and academic settings.

3 學分

Smart Governance is an essence for the development of smart city that stressing on the public-private collaboration for city management through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). What are smart governance practices being implemented for the success of smart city? How does it work with the use of big data in managing a city? This course aims at the discussion on the key elements of smart governance (including virtual and cyber government organizational network, digital network between government and stakeholders, data sharing and digital agenda, e-participation and social media). It will use the experiences in different countries for the practice of smart government in various policy areas like transport, health, tourism and public security etc.