ECON-GA-4002

ECON-GA-4002 is titled "Mathematical Foundations for Computational Social Science"

See the syllabus in the syllabus/ directory (or download here) for more information

Other resources:

• YouTube playlist for summer precourse: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmuDnHwFwWyItXFIUD-YxCyd-4OiOVY9K

Week 1: 2021-09-07

• Introduce the course
• Study notebooks in lectures/L01_linear_algebra
• No assignments handed out
• "Homework" is to watch the precourse videos on installing python + jupyter and a text editor of your choice (either VS code or Pycharm) and get your system set up and ready to go for next week. There are 6 videos in total covering (vscode, pycharm) x (windows, mac, linux) -- just watch and work through the one that applies to you. If you aren't sure whether to use Pycharm or VS code, we reccomend VS Code

Week 2: 2021-09-14

• Covered the probability lectures by Tom
• Materials stored in lectures/L02_probability
• No assignments

Week 3: 2021-09-21

• Covered the probability (and introduction to statistics) lectures by Tom
• Materials posted in lectures/L03_probabilty_statistics
• No assignments

Week 4: 2021-09-28

• Covered various probability distributions
• Materials posted in lectures/L04_probability_distributions
• Assignment posted on linear algebra and probability -- See announcements.