- January 11th - Overview, logistics, and start Python Basics
- January 13th - The rest of Python Basics (start from Numbers) and Collections (lists, tuples, dictionaries)
- January 18th - Control Flow (if/else, for/while loops) and lab session on Jupyter, Syzygy, etc. in prep for PS1
- January 20th - The rest of Control Flow (break, continue, comprehensions), and Functions
- January 25th - Numpy
- January 27th - PS1 review, Plotting Intro, and start Linear Algebra
- February 1st - Examples of NPV evaluation; The rest of Linear Algebra (NPV portfolio evaluation and Unemployment dynamics)
- February 3rd - PS2 review and Randomness
- February 8th - Optimization
- February 10th - Pandas Intro
- February 15th - Midterm break; Family Day
- February 17th - Midterm break
- February 22nd - Pandas Basics, Storage Formats, and Cleaning Data
- February 24th - PS3 review, Reshape, and start Merge
- March 1st - The rest of Merge (starting from .merge), quickly go through The Index, and start Groupby
- March 3rd - The rest of Groupby and Timeseries
- March 8th - Matplotlib and Visualization
- March 10th - PS5 review, The rest of Visualization; Start Regression
- March 15th - The rest of Regression starting from LASSO
- March 17th - Application: recidivism
- March 22nd - Classification
- March 24th - The rest of Classification; then Mapping
- March 29th - Machine learning in economics
- March 31st - PS6 review, Working with text
- April 5th - Easter Monday
- April 7th - Final Project Brainstorming / Discussion
- April 12th - Heterogeneous effect
- April 14th - PS7 review, Covid related notebooks (See https://github.com/ubcecon/ECON_323_Spring2021/tree/master/extra_notebooks), Summary
Tentative schedules are below (subject to changes)
- Due January 21st - Problem Set 1 (uploaded as executed ipynb file through Canvas)
- Due January 28th - Problem Set 2
- Due February 4th - Problem Set 3
- Due February 21st - Problem Set 4 - Questions 1, 2, 3, and 6 Only
- Due March 4th - Problem Set 5
- Due March 17th - Problem Set 6 - Questions 1-7 Only
- Due March 30th - Problem Set 7