Faculty Profile
Eren Bilen
Assistant Professor of Data Analytics (2021)
Contact Information
Althouse Hall Room 104
717-254-8162
https://ernbilen.github.io
Bio
Eren Bilen's primary research domain is in behavioral and applied economics, in particular, on incentives and their role on performance in competitive environments. His recent work scrapes and analyzes data from an online chess platform with millions of moves made by players all around the world. His broader research interests involve machine learning and geospatial analysis on a wide range of applications. Particular topics include natural disaster response to the effects of availability of grocery store chains on consumer behavior. He has since published in several academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and the Canadian Journal of Economics. He enjoys teaching both Python and R. The courses he taught include introduction to data science, data systems for data analytics, game theory, data analytics capstone.
Education
- B.A., Izmir University of Economics, 2015
- M.A., University of South Carolina, 2016
- Ph.D., 2021
2025-2026 Academic Year
Fall 2025
DATA 101 Data Science Humanit/Soc Sci
What can data science do for you? This application-driven course invites students from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to use data as a lens for asking, and answering, disciplinary questions. Through a task-oriented introduction to statistical software, students will wrangle real-world datasets drawn from literary corpora, maps, music, sports, visual arts, and viral trends. Along the way we introduce core ideas in data science such as descriptive statistics, modeling, visualization, and ethics, while demystifying the field itself. This course equips you with practical, portable skills to address the following types of questions. How has the usage of the word ‘Queer’ evolved? What makes hip hop lyrics different from country lyrics? How do the color palettes of the Renaissance compare to those of the French Impressionists? Did a viral Tik Tok increase sales of Stanley tumblers? No prior coding or statistics background is assumed.
DATA 400 Data Analytics Capstone
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