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 PowerPoint files and other materials from each class.

Announcements

Repositories of Examples

Assignments

Solutions

Other Resources

Census Shapefiles: Links to the key download pages a the Census
City of Syracuse Open Data Portal: Includes GIS data.
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"
International Shapefiles: Links to pages that provide international GIS data.
New York State Property Tax Data: Data on all tax parcels in New York. Provided by county for parcel centroids.
Operator Precedence in Python: Table showing the order of precedence from highest to lowest.
Postman API Client: The website for the Postman application.
Remote Access to Class Sessions: Instructions for accessing class sessions.
Seaborn Data Visualization Library: Very powerful Python module for statistical data visualization.
Signup Page for a Census API Key: Get your own API key here.
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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