Econometrics 3: Data science for economic analysis

EC7422, Stockholm University

Author
Affiliation

Adam Altmejd Selder

The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)

This site hosts course material for EC7422, “Data science for economic analysis”, at Stockholm University.

Material links below are updated as slides and handouts are published.

Course schedule (official schedule on TimeEdit)

Lecture Date Time Material
1. Introduction to Data Science for Economists Tuesday, March 24, 2026 10:00-12:00 Slides, PDF
2. Project Workflows and Version Control Monday, March 30, 2026 10:00-12:00 Slides, PDF
3. R Basics I Tuesday, April 7, 2026 10:00-12:00 Slides, PDF
4. R Basics II: Vectors, Tables, and Tidy Thinking Thursday, April 16, 2026 10:00-12:00 Slides, PDF
5. Independent Workflows, Debugging, and AI Support Thursday, April 23, 2026 10:00-12:00 Pending
6. Data Wrangling I Tuesday, April 28, 2026 10:00-12:00 Pending
7. Data Wrangling II Tuesday, May 5, 2026 10:00-12:00 Pending
8. APIs and External Data Tuesday, May 12, 2026 13:00-15:00 Pending
9. LLMs for Data Processing Tuesday, May 19, 2026 13:00-15:00 Pending
10. Visualization and Communication Thursday, May 28, 2026 10:00-12:00 Pending

Problem sets

Invite links to GitHub Classroom Problem Set repos will be posted to Athena. You will have approximately two weeks to complete each problem set.


Source files for the course live in the GitHub repository.