Statistics & the Political Sociology of Quantification

Etablissement : ESPOL European School of Political and Social Sciences

Langue : Anglais

Période : S3

This course has no formal prequisites. However, students will be expected to be able to use their personal laptops to work with online spreadsheet software (Google Sheets), as well as with statistical software (R and RStudio). All software used in the course is free to install and use.

Students should open a Google account prior to the first class, and bring a recent laptop running an up-to-date operating system and Web browser to all classes.

Students who have difficulties with using their personal laptops are advised to immediately turn to the University computer helpdesk for assistance.


The instructions above will be repeated and detailed in the first week of class.


  • Introduction to statistical practice

  • Introduction to the qualitative study of numbers

Please refer to the course syllabus: https://f.briatte.org/teaching/syllabus-spsq.pdf