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Big Data for Public Policy

ETH Zurich -- Spring Term 2021

Lecture materials for the ETHZ course '860-0033-00L Big Data for Public Policy FS2021' (cf.Course syllabus)

Signing sheet for students presentation

Notebooks on Binder


Date Lecture Materials
0 Feb 25 Class overview Slides in html, pdf
1 Feb 25 Statistical Learning [part 1] Slides in html, pdf
2 Mar 4 Statistical Learning [part 2] Slides in html, pdf
3 Mar 4 Scraping and APIs Notebook: .ipynb, html
4 Mar 11 Intro to ML: regressions Slides in html, pdf; Notebook: .ipynb, html
5 Mar 18 Unsupervised learning Slides in html, pdf; Notebook: .ipynb, html
6 Mar 25 Classification Slides in html, pdf; Notebook: .ipynb, html
7 Apr 1 [NLP] Text analysis essentials Slides in pdf
9 Apr 15 Text analysis Notebook: .ipynb
10 Apr 22 Advanced ML Notebook: .ipynb
11 Apr 29 Research design Slides in pdf;
12 Apr 29 Developing a Dash application Notebook: .ipynb)
13 May 6 The Limitations of ML Slides in pdf
14 May 20 Heterogeneous treatment effect Slides in pdf
15 May 27 Advanced causal methods Notebook: .ipynb, html