Course Schedule
This page displays an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the term. Each module starts on a Monday. There are no assignments due on Sundays.
| Module | Date | Topic | Readings | Reference | Slides | Videos | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Jan 16 | Course Intro | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 1.2 | Getting Started with Quarto | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 2.1 | Jan 23 | Bar charts, histograms | ๐ ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 2.2 | Line charts, scatter plots | ๐ ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | ||
| 3.1 | Jan 29 | Downloading and manipulating data | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 3.2 | Summarizing by groups | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | ||
| 4.1 | Feb 6 | Data viz recap | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||||
| 4.2 | Exercise 1: Visualize modernization theory | ๐ | ๐งฎ | ||||
| 5.1 | Feb 13 | Research Design | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 5.2 | Distributions | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | |||
| 6.1 | Feb 20 | Uncertainty and sampling distributions | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 6.2 | Using a bootstrap to generate confidence intervals | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | ||
| 7.1 | Feb 27 | Hypothesis testing | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 7.2 | Exercise 2: Evaluate a claim | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐งฎ | ||
| 8.1 | Mar 5 | USAID walkthrough | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 8.2 | USAID walkthrough | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||||
| Mar 12 | No Class | Spring Break | โ๏ธ๐ด๐ | ||||
| 9.1 | Mar 19 | Lab Time | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 9.2 | Models and their uses | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | |||
| 10.1 | Mar 26 | Linear regression | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 10.2 | Multiple regression | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | ||
| 11.1 | Apr 2 | Logistic regression | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ||
| 11.2 | Regression tables | ๐ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ | ||
| 12.1 | Apr 9 | Interpreting regression results | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 12.2 | Prediction | ๐ | |||||
| 13.1 | Apr 16 | Modeling review | |||||
| 13.2 | Exercise 3โPredicting conflict | ๐งฎ | |||||
| 14.1 | Apr 23 | Advanced Quarto | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | |||
| 14.2 | Final project workshop | ๐ฅ๏ธ | ๐ฅ๏ธ | โ๏ธ |