DATA ACQUISITION AND PREPARATION FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH

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(Slashed with ECON 62052 ) In this course, students will learn to access and collect data from existing sources (databases and raw data), prepare the data for further analysis, tabulate/visualize the summary statistics, and perform basic analysis using several different statistical software. The course is designed primarily to aid students with their academic research projects. Students will primarily learn Stata and SAS for data preparation and analysis and Python for scraping texts from various web sources.