PAI 789 Advanced Policy Analysis

Spring 2024

General Information About the Course

General Information, Textbook and Requirements: General information that you may need at the beginning of the semester.
Course Outline: Preliminary lists of topics that will be covered this semester.
Materials from Class Sessions: Where to find PDFs of notes and other materials from each class.

Quick Reference for Google Classroom, Slack and GitHub

Google classroom	m3vketp
Slack workspace	pai789s24
GitHub organization	maxwell-pai789

Key Resources

Course Google Drive Folder: Access to data files that aren't built into the assignment repositories.
Software Packages: Download links for key software packages used throughout the semester.

Announcements

Apr 22	Repositories are due Monday 5/6 by 11:59 pm.
Jan 17	Welcome!

Computational Exercises (GitHub)

GitHub Warmup (g01) - Due 1/26
Hello World (g02) - Due 1/26
Lists (g03) - Due 1/26
Basic For Loops (g04) - Due 2/2
Dictionaries (g05) - Due 2/2
Functions (g06) - Due 2/2
Power Plant Options (g07) - Due 2/9
Market Equilibrium (g08) - Due 2/9
Residential Solar in NY (g09) - Due 2/16
Distributional Analysis Using Pandas (g10) - Due 2/16
Analyzing Residential Property by Zip Code (g11) - Due 2/23
Working with Large Zip Files (g12) - Due 2/23
Joining Geographic and Census Data (g13) - Due 3/1
Joining Weather and Electricity Data (g14) - Due 3/1
Computing County Dissimilarity Indexes (g15) - Due 3/8
Aggregating Political Contributions (g16) - Due 3/8
Introduction to Seaborn (g17) - Due 3/22
Using the Census API (g18) - Due 3/22
Educational Attainment in New York (g19) - Due 3/29
Analyzing the Contributions Data (g20) - Due 3/29
Installing Geopandas (g21) - Due Monday 4/1
Median Earnings for New York Counties (g22) - Due 4/5
Mapping Political Contributions in Pennsylvania (g23) - Due 4/5
Building a Buffer Around a Highway (g24) - Due 4/12
Multi-Ring Buffers and Spatial Joins (g25) - Due 4/12
Residential Demographics Near Interstates (g26) - Due 4/19
GIS Distance Operations (g27) - No due date
Geocoding (g28) - No due date
Handling Directories and Files (g29) - No due date
Estimation and Monte Carlo Analysis (g30) - No due date

Analytical Exercises (Google Classroom)

Listed under the Materials from Class entry for the day they were given.

Data Sources

Census Documentation: Selected information useful in working with Census data
Census Shapefiles: Links to the key download pages a the Census
Census State and Local Government Finance Data: Available annually.
City of Syracuse Open Data Portal: Includes GIS data.
Data.gov: The federal government's open data access portal.
EIA US Energy Atlas: Extensive GIS data on the US energy sector.
EM-DAT: International Disaster Database
Federal Election Commission: Data on political contributions.
FEMA Flood Map Service Center: Find flood maps by using the "Search All Products" tool and selecting "NFHL Data-County"
FEMA Open Data: FEMA's open data repository
ICPSR: A long-standing university consortium that provides access to many social science datasets.
International Shapefiles: Links to pages that provide international GIS data.
Life-M: Intergenerational database of 15 M individuals born in Ohio or North Carolina
Massachusetts Property Tax Parcels: Shapefiles and data on tax parcels in the state.
Microsoft Building Footprint Data: Datasets of building footprints by state.
MIT Election Lab: A wide range of datasets on US Federal elections.
New York State: The NYS open data access portal.
New York State GIS Clearinghouse: An extensive repository of NYS GIS data.
New York State Property Tax Data: Data on all tax parcels in New York. Provided by county for parcel centroids.
World Bank Open Data: Open access development data.

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