SODA
Welcome to the web home of Social Data Analytics (SoDA) at Penn State!
The Program in Social Data Analytics offers an undergraduate major (B.S.), a dual-title Ph.D. and a doctoral minor in Social Data Analytics. Visit the Undergraduate or Graduate sections of our website to learn about application, requirements, career possibilities, and more!
The Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) was launched in 2019 by the Penn State College of Liberal Arts to support research and education campuswide in Social Data Analytics at Penn State. Visit the Research, News, and Events sections of our website to learn more about what's happening at C-SoDA!
The SoDA degree programs and C-SoDA were developed out of Penn State's NSF-funded Big Data Social Science (BDSS) IGERT PhD training program that ran from 2012-2018, and its precursor, the Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI) that ran from 2004-2018. Visit the BDSS-IGERT section of our website to learn more.