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 2API	Notebook UCB Majors Notebook EIA API
Thu, Feb 05	Lecture 6 Slides Lab 2API IPUMS	Notebook RBM Big Mac Notebook FRED Shading Notebook Inflation Merge Notebook Phillips 3D

Week 4: Surveys and RCTs

Tue, Feb 10	Lecture 7 Slides Discussion 3Survey Design	Notebook VibesParty Notebook Springs-Strings
Thu, Feb 12	Lecture 8 Slides Lab 3Wrangling Survey Data Project 1Regional GDP	Notebook Sea Level Rise

Week 5: Visualization

Tue, Feb 17	Lecture 9 Slides Discussion 4Visualizations	Notebook Viz Demo Notebook Finance Demo Notebook Avocados Log
Thu, Feb 19	Lecture 10 Slides Lab 4Visualization	Notebook County GDP Notebook Bollinger with Trading

Week 6: Visualization and Mapping

Tue, Feb 24	Lecture 11 Slides Discussion 5More Pandas and Regex	Notebook Plotly Demo
Thu, Feb 26	Lecture 12 Slides Lab 5Geospatial Visualization Project 2Mariel Boatlift	Notebook CESXCommColl Notebook Justice40

Week 7: SQL

Tue, Mar 03	Lecture 13 Slides Discussion 6SQL	Notebook StarWars Notebook StarWarsXPandas Notebook Pokemon Notebook Northwinds
Thu, Mar 05	Lecture 14 Slides Lab 6SQL	Notebook Formula 1 Notebook Fantasy Premier League

Week 8: Econometrics

Tue, Mar 10	Lecture 15 Justin Lecture Slides Discussion 7Econometrics
Thu, Mar 12	Lecture 16Class Cancelled Lab 7Metrics: Card and Kreuger

Week 9: Survival Analysis

Tue, Mar 17	Lecture 17 Survival Analysis Slides	Notebook Survival_Airpods Notebook Notebook Lifelines_Termination
Thu, Mar 19	Lecture 18 Slides-Reproducibility Lab 8Survival Analysis	Notebook BuildingCPS Notebook CPS_Survival Notebook Meyer_1990_Survival

Week 10

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

Week 11: Time Series

Tue, Mar 31	Lecture 19David Reiley - Correlation and Causation Discussion 8Midterm Review
Thu, Apr 02	Lecture 20 Time Series Slides	Notebook TimeSeries_Intro Notebook TimeSeries_Prophet Notebook Prophet_3

Week 12

Tue, Apr 07	Midterm Week Discussion 9
Thu, Apr 09	Lecture 21 Project 3 and ML Project 3Project 3	Notebook Brad Lyons UC Investments Notebook ML_Intro

Week 13: Machine Learning

Tue, Apr 14	Lecture 22 ML Classifiers Discussion 10	Notebook ML_Adult
Thu, Apr 16	Lecture 23 ML Folktables Lab 9Time Series	Notebook ML_Folktables Notebook ML_PCA_Regularization

Week 14: Machine Learning

Tue, Apr 21	Lecture 24 ML Regularization and Bias-Variance Tradeoff Discussion 11	Notebook BiasVariance Notebook Regularization Notebook SHAP-Folktables
Thu, Apr 23	Lecture 25 ML to AI	Notebook Conrad Miller Slides Notebook Conrad Miller Notebook

Week 15: AI

Tue, Apr 28	Lecture 26 Econ and AI Discussion 12	Notebook Backtesting with ML Notebook Dashboards with ML
Thu, Apr 30	Lecture 27

Week 16

Tue, May 05	Lecture 28
Thu, May 07	Lecture 29

Week 17

Tue, May 12	Lecture 30
Thu, May 14	Lecture 31