nicoidominguez/ECON-GA-4003

ECON-GA-4003 is titled "Data Skills for Computational Social Science"

ECON-GA-4003

ECON-GA-4003 is titled "Data Skills for Computational Social Science"

See the syllabus in the syllabus/ directory (or download here) for more information

Other resources:

• YouTube playlist for summer precourse: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmuDnHwFwWyItXFIUD-YxCyd-4OiOVY9K

Week 1: 2021-09-02

• Introduce the course
• Study notebooks in notebooks/p01_pandas_intro
• No assignments handed out
• "Homework" is to watch the precourse videos on installing python + jupyter and a text editor of your choice (either VS code or Pycharm) and get your system set up and ready to go for next week. There are 6 videos in total covering (vscode, pycharm) x (windows, mac, linux) -- just watch and work through the one that applies to you. If you aren't sure whether to use Pycharm or VS code, we reccomend VS Code

Week 2: 2021-09-09

• Study notebooks
  • notebooks/p02_organizing_data_with_pandas_1/01_the_index.ipynb
  • notebooks/p03_organizing_data_with_pandas_2/v1_pandas_data_clean.ipynb
• Homework 1 was assigned -- see brightspace for more details

Week 3: 2021-09-16

• Study notebooks in the p03_organizing_data_with_pandas_2 directory

Week 4: 2021-09-23

• Study notebooks in the p04_pandas_review directory and p05_groupby directories

• Study notebooks

  • notebooks/p04_pandas_review/01_pandas_review_movieLens.ipynb
  • notebooks/p04_pandas_review/01_pandas_review_population.ipynb
  • notebooks/p05_groupby/01_groupby.ipynb

Week 5: 2021-09-30

• Study notebooks in the p06_apis directory

Week 6: 2021-10-07

• Study notebooks in p07_plotting

Week 7: 2021-10-14

• Study notebooks in p08_sql

Week 8: 2021-10-21

• Study notebooks in p09_timeseries_data_with_pandas AND p10_markov_chains