Data Science for Economists

UC Berkeley, Spring 2026

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Week 1: Introduction

Tue, Jan 20	Lecture 1 Slides	Notebook Crypto Notebook DSL in NetworkX Reading Chapter 2
Thu, Jan 22	Lecture 2 Slides Lab 0Intro to Jupyter Lab	Notebook VibeCession

Week 2: Pandas and API

Tue, Jan 27	Lecture 3 Slides Discussion 1Pandas	Notebook JapanJan26 Notebook ETD Blank Notebook ETD Example Notebook ETD Analyst
Thu, Jan 29	Lecture 4 Slides Lab 1Pandas	Notebook Jim Church Slides Notebook WRDS Introduction Notebook Dewey Data Notebook FOMC_Reading

Week 3: FRED API & Pandas

Tue, Feb 03	Lecture 5 Slides Discussion 2	Notebook UCB Majors Notebook EIA API
Thu, Feb 05	Lecture 6 Lab 2API IPUMS Project 1County GDP

Week 4: Surveys and RCTs

Tue, Feb 10	Lecture 7 Discussion 3
Thu, Feb 12	Lecture 8 Lab 3Surveys and RCT

Week 5: Visualization

Tue, Feb 17	Lecture 9 Discussion 4
Thu, Feb 19	Lecture 10 Lab 4Visualization

Week 6: Visualization and Mapping

Tue, Feb 24	Lecture 11 Discussion 5
Thu, Feb 26	Lecture 12 Lab 5Dubai Project 2Mariel Boatlift

Week 7: SQL

Tue, Mar 03	Lecture 13 Discussion 6
Thu, Mar 05	Lecture 14 Lab 6SQL

Week 8: Econometrics

Tue, Mar 10	Lecture 15 Discussion 7
Thu, Mar 12	Lecture 16 Lab 7Metrics: Card and Kreuger

Week 9: Survival Analysis

Tue, Mar 17	Lecture 17 Discussion 8
Thu, Mar 19	Lecture 18 Lab 8Survival

Week 10

Tue, Mar 24	Lecture 19
Thu, Mar 26	Spring Break

Week 11: Time Series

Tue, Mar 31	Spring Break Discussion 9
Thu, Apr 02	Lecture 20 Lab 9Time Series

Week 12

Tue, Apr 07	Lecture 21 Discussion 10
Thu, Apr 09	Midterm Week Project 3Project 3

Week 13: Machine Learning

Tue, Apr 14	Lecture 22 Discussion 11
Thu, Apr 16	Lecture 23 Lab 10Lab 10

Week 14: Machine Learning

Tue, Apr 21	Lecture 24 Discussion 12
Thu, Apr 23	Lecture 25 Lab 11Lab 11

Week 15: AI

Tue, Apr 28	Lecture 26 Discussion 13
Thu, Apr 30	Lecture 27

Week 16

Tue, May 05	Lecture 28
Thu, May 07	RRR Week

Week 17

Tue, May 12	RRR Week
Thu, May 14	Finals Week