Course Schedule

Date	Topic
9/5	Introduction
9/8	Exploratory Data Analysis
9/10	Lab: Exploratory Data Analysis
9/12	Unsupervised Learning
9/15	Lab: Unsupervised Learning
9/17	Data Visualization
9/19	Exploratory Data Analysis Project Group Meetings
9/22	Numerical Approaches to OLS
9/24	Lab: Numerical Approaches to OLS
9/26	Exploratory Data Analysis Project Presentations
9/29	Cross-Validation
10/1	Lab: Cross-Validation
10/3	No class: possible Mountain Day
10/6	Causal Inference, Potential Outcomes, and RCTs
10/8	Subset Selection, Regularization, and Lasso
10/9	Economics Department Seminar: 4:00 PM
10/10	No class: possible Mountain Day
10/13	No class: reading period
10/15	Post Double Selection Lasso
10/17	No class: possible Mountain Day
10/20	Lab: Post Double Selection Lasso
10/22	Regression Trees and Random Forests
10/24	Causal Forests, Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
10/27	Lab: Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
10/29	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Group Meetings
10/31	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Group Meetings
11/3	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Presentations
11/5	Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Project Presentations
11/7	Lab: Web Scraping, Regular Expressions
11/10	Word Frequencies, tf-idf
11/12	Lab: Word Frequencies, tf-idf
11/14	Guest Speaker: Professor Elliott Ash
11/17	Sentiments, Document-Term Matrices, Clustering Documents
11/19	Lab: Sentiments, Document-Term Matrices, Clustering Documents
11/21	Final Project Group Meetings
11/24	Final Project Group Meetings
11/26	Thanksgiving Break
11/28	Thanksgiving Break
12/1	Final Project Presentations
12/3	Final Project Presentations

Italics indicates no class meeting on that date.
Bold indicates student presentations on that date.