Data Science for Economists, 2025 Spring ECON 148 001 LEC 001

2025 Spring ECON 148 001 LEC 001

This course will give the undergraduate student the basic computational building blocks needed to be a good consumer and producer of applied economics work. Students will work to acquire data through APIs, access census data, or download from replication repositories. The course will cover wrangling data, working with incomplete or unstructured data, joining and merging data, exploratory data analysis and data visualization. The course will cover many aspects of preparing data for econometric analysis. Practices around literate code, open science tools, reproducibility, and data management will also be covered.

Course Times
TuTh 2:00pm - 3:29pm
Course Location
Hearst Field Annex A1
Course CCN
25665
Course Level
Undergraduate
Course Units
4
Section Type
Lecture
Course number
148
Instructors
Eric Van Dusen

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