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This course is designed to introduce students to the scientific study of happiness and psychological well-being as well as data visualization strategies for effectively addressing questions about well-being. We begin with readings that will allow us to critically consider what is meant by happiness and psychological well-being and then move on to evaluating approaches to measuring these constructs. We will examine studies that have tracked happiness and attempted to identify contributors to happiness. We will ponder the ways in which culture and historical factors influence the nature and study of happiness. This is an applied data science course in which students will work directly with data sets measuring aspects of well-being and learn about ways to visualize data effectively and describe it in clear and compelling ways. Part of our class meetings will be used as lab time to support data visualization assignments.
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