Data Science for Economists
UC Berkeley, Spring 2026
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Week 1: Introduction
| Tue, Jan 20 | Lecture 1
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Crypto
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DSL in NetworkX
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Chapter 2
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| Thu, Jan 22 | Lecture 2
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Lab 0Intro to Jupyter Lab |
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VibeCession
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Week 2: Pandas and API
| Tue, Jan 27 | Lecture 3
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Discussion 1Pandas |
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JapanJan26
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ETD Blank
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ETD Example
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ETD Analyst
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| Thu, Jan 29 | Lecture 4
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Lab 1Pandas |
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Jim Church Slides
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WRDS Introduction
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Dewey Data
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FOMC_Reading
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Week 3: FRED API & Pandas
| Tue, Feb 03 | Lecture 5
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Discussion 2API |
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UCB Majors
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EIA API
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| Thu, Feb 05 | Lecture 6
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Lab 2API IPUMS |
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RBM Big Mac
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FRED Shading
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Inflation Merge
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Phillips 3D
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Week 4: Surveys and RCTs
| Tue, Feb 10 | Lecture 7
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Discussion 3Survey Design |
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VibesParty
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Springs-Strings
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| Thu, Feb 12 | Lecture 8
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Project 1Regional GDP |
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Sea Level Rise
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Week 5: Visualization
| Tue, Feb 17 | Lecture 9
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Discussion 4Visualizations |
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Viz Demo
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Finance Demo
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Avocados Log
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| Thu, Feb 19 | Lecture 10
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Lab 4Visualization |
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County GDP
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Bollinger with Trading
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Week 6: Visualization and Mapping
| Tue, Feb 24 | Lecture 11
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Discussion 5More Pandas and Regex |
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Plotly Demo
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| Thu, Feb 26 | Lecture 12
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Project 2Mariel Boatlift |
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CESXCommColl
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Justice40
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Week 7: SQL
| Tue, Mar 03 | Lecture 13
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Discussion 6SQL |
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StarWars
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StarWarsXPandas
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Pokemon
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Northwinds
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| Thu, Mar 05 | Lecture 14
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Lab 6SQL |
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Formula 1
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Fantasy Premier League
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Week 8: Econometrics
| Tue, Mar 10 | Lecture 15
Justin Lecture Slides
Discussion 7Econometrics |
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| Thu, Mar 12 | Lecture 16Class Cancelled |
Week 9: Survival Analysis
| Tue, Mar 17 | Lecture 17
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Survival_Airpods
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Lifelines_Termination
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| Thu, Mar 19 | Lecture 18
Slides-Reproducibility
Lab 8Survival Analysis |
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BuildingCPS
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CPS_Survival
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Meyer_1990_Survival
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Week 10
| Tue, Mar 24 | Spring Break |
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| Thu, Mar 26 | Spring Break |
Week 11: Time Series
| Tue, Mar 31 | Lecture 19David Reiley - Correlation and Causation Discussion 8Midterm Review |
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| Thu, Apr 02 | Lecture 20
Time Series Slides
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TimeSeries_Intro
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TimeSeries_Prophet
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Prophet_3
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Week 12
| Tue, Apr 07 | Midterm Week Discussion 9 |
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| Thu, Apr 09 | Lecture 21
Project 3 and ML
Project 3Project 3 |
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Brad Lyons UC Investments
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ML_Intro
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Week 13: Machine Learning
| Tue, Apr 14 | Lecture 22
ML Classifiers
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ML_Adult
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| Thu, Apr 16 | Lecture 23
ML Folktables
Lab 9Time Series |
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ML_Folktables
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ML_PCA_Regularization
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Week 14: Machine Learning
| Tue, Apr 21 | Lecture 24
ML Regularization and Bias-Variance Tradeoff
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BiasVariance
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Regularization
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SHAP-Folktables
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| Thu, Apr 23 | Lecture 25
ML to AI
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Conrad Miller Slides
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Conrad Miller Notebook
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Week 15: AI
| Tue, Apr 28 | Lecture 26
Econ and AI
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Backtesting with ML
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Dashboards with ML
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| Thu, Apr 30 | Lecture 27 |
Week 16
| Tue, May 05 | Lecture 28 |
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| Thu, May 07 | Lecture 29 |
Week 17
| Tue, May 12 | Lecture 30 |
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| Thu, May 14 | Lecture 31 |