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POLS 7012: Introduction to Political Methodology

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POLS 7012: Introduction to Political Methodology

This repository contains course materials for my graduate-level Intro to Political Methodology course. In this class, we learn how to confidently work with data using R and RStudio. Along the way we introduce the fundamental mathematics behind the tools we use in empirical social science, including optimization, matrix algebra, probability, and inference. You can find the syllabus here.

Slides

  1. Getting Started

  2. Data Visualization

  3. Tools for Reproducible Research

  4. Data Wrangling

  5. All The Calculus You Need

  6. Probability and Inference

  7. Hypothesis Testing

  8. Correlation

  9. Prediction

  10. Semester Recap