PAI 789 Advanced Policy Analysis

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	ir76f7r
Slack workspace	pai789s22
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 25	Please check your entry on the presentation schedule.
Apr 24	Class on Monday 4/24 will be on Zoom ONLY. See Blackboard or Slack for the link and password.
Apr 20	The information from Monday about the repositories and presentations is now available here.
Apr 10	As mentioned in class a few weeks ago, the repositories are due on May 11.
Apr 5	The Census documentation page now has tips on finding things in the ACS
Mar 22	The initial allocation of presentation slots is available here
Mar 20	Class on Monday 3/21 will be on Zoom ONLY. See Blackboard or Slack for the link and password.
Feb 9	After today, the class Zoom session will only run when needed.
Feb 4	Today's lab will be hybrid: in-person and also on the class Zoom session.
Jan 24	Welcome!

Computational Exercises (GitHub)

Computational Exercises: Solutions

Paper and Pencil Exercises (Google Classroom)

Paper and Pencil Exercises: Solutions

See Materials from Class Sessions for the day the problem was given.

Data Sources

Census Documentation: Selected information useful in working with Census data
Census Shapefiles: Links to the key download pages a the Census
City of Syracuse Open Data Portal: Includes GIS data.
Data.gov: The federal government's open data access portal.
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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Revised 05/15/2022