1 Exploratory Data Analysis

Readings

Fundamentals of Data Visualization: 7, 12.1

An Intro to Statistical Learning: 7.6

Additional R References:

R for Data Science: 7 on importing data, 5 on cleaning data, 10 on exploratatory data analysis, and 19 on merging data

An Intro to Statistical Learning: 7.6

Additional Python References:

Using Python for Introductory Economics: 1

An Intro to Stats with Python: 2.1, 2.2, and 3.1

Lecture

Slides from Lecture 1

Lab

Objective: use both R and Python to combine country-level data on GDP per capita in 2010 from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators with data on educational attainment in 2010 from the Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Data Set, and then explore and summarize some of the variables in the combined data set.

The assignment as .R, .py, and a google colab

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