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Came across this. It is an example of the kind of digital sociology projects I can imagine our M.Sc. students doing. With some additional critical analysis and writing to demonstrate they get the theory, this could be a good applied project.

we see, for example, innovative school programs showing great success in serving immigrant English language learner high school students, we may want to know more about the nuances and factors in place. Such findings will help develop more contextualized understandings of how the programs actually work to improve youth outcomes. With such deeper understandings, study findings may be more likely to inform interventions in other settings or encourage policy or funding decisions to support program expansion.

M.I.T. computer scientist Alex Pentland explains There's a reason every government and corporation wants to hoard as much data on as many people as possible. Gather enough data, says Alex "Sandy" Pentland, director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Human Dynamics Laboratory, and you can achieve a "God's-eye view of humanity". Students practice theory construction and analysis by teasing out the social theory at work in our contemporary version of a "data driven" society. With some guidance we tease out theories of action, self, and social cohesion. We contrast that with some examples of a more conflict theory data driven society.

A great humorist is often a good sociologist. Chris Rock puts a funny spin on class, race and wealth in his analysis of who lives in his neighborhood. Some foul language but students can generally handle it.