ECON 423
Introduction to Applied Data Science
Economics · 4 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Limited to Master of Applied Economics students. Designed to build strong bases in tools and methods of data science and analytics. Introduction of tools for capture, transformation, imputation, visualization, and mapping of data for downstream processing in analytics pipeline. Introduction of analytics subsystems and scalable storage and processing of very large and complex datasets. Information theory, computational analysis, and behavioral economics with specific emphasis on data science in economics.
Letter grading.
Requisites
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