2 Unsupervised Learning

Readings

An Intro to Statistical Learning: 6.3.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.4.1

Lecture

Slides from Lecture 2

Lab

Objective: explore cross-country data from the World Development Indicators and the relplication files from Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn (2013) to better understand country-level variation in economic and social conditions.

The lab is available in either R or Python.