Peter J Wilcoxen

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.

Announcements

Feb 26 If you're up for some pretty geeky humor, here's an XKCD cartoon about Git. 
Feb 7 Today's lab will be at the regular time but in Eggers 111 instead of the CPR. 
Jan 22 Today's office hours will be moved to tomorrow, Thursday 1/23, from 2:00-3:15. 
Jan 21 This week's lab will be Thu 1/23 3:15-4:30 in the conference room in the Center for Policy Research in 426 Eggers. 
Jan 14 This week's lab will be Thu 1/16 4:00-5:30 in Eggers 209 (the PAIA conference room). 
Jan 13 Welcome! 

Assignments

  1. Startup Tasks - Due 1/14
  2. Storing Nuclear Waste
  3. GitHub Warmup (g01) - Due 1/17
  4. Transformer Upgrade
  5. Dome Renovations
  6. Hello World (g02) - Due 1/24
  7. Computing Upgrade
  8. Buying Information
  9. Lists (g03) - Due 1/24
  10. Extract the Head of a File (g04) - Due 1/31
  11. Value of Information
  12. Basic For Loops (g05) - Due 1/31
  13. Dictionaries (g06) - Due 1/31
  14. Power Plant Atlas (g07) - Due 2/7
  15. Imperfect Information
  16. Functions (g08) - Due 2/7
  17. Tests for Low Prevalence Diseases
  18. Policy Uncertainty (g09) - Due 2/14
  19. Market Equilibrium (g10) - Due 2/14
  20. Working with Large Zip Files (g11) - Due 2/21
  21. Option Value of a Street Upgrade
  22. Detailed Distributional Analysis (g12) - Due 2/21
  23. Option Value of Preserving a Park
  24. Analyzing Residential Property by Zip Code (g13) - Due 2/28

Solution Keys

Other Resources

Google Drive Folder for Data Files
Access to data files that aren't built into the assignment repositories.
New York State Property Tax Data
Data on all tax parcels in New York. Provided by county for parcel centroids.
Guidelines for Using GitHub
A few tips on how to use GitHub in this course.
Core Software
Download links for key software packages used throughout the semester.
Markdown Cheatsheet
A great quick reference guide
MaxLab Cluster
A cluster of virtual machines available for use by people from class.
Guidelines for Presentations
Please refer to these when preparing your talk at the end of the semester.
How to Open a Terminal Window on a Mac
A WikiHow article showing several ways to do it.
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