Data and Computation I

Catalog description

This course is a hands-on approach to the study of open-source computational and data management tools now available online. Workhorses will be Python and affiliated programs for efficient calculations and numpy and pandas for data managment. These tools are presented in ways designed to open doors for doing applied quantitative economics at the graduate level. The aim is to help students become literate in the open source ecology for doing machine learning with economic data and models at the graduate level. It is assumed that students are comfortable with linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and probability and statistics.