Summer Session 2018

• Two Paradigms of Analytics: Input-Output Framework

• The Right Tool for the Right Question
  1. Why is Predictive Analytics not Well-Suited for Causal Inference?
  2. Why is Identification Strategy not Well-Suited for Prediction?

• Causal Inference: Identification Strategy (1)
  1. Randomized Experiment
  2. Quasi-Experiment

• Causal Inference: Identification Strategy (2)
  1. Instrument Variable Approach
  2. Dynamic Panel Model (Internal Instruments)

• Reflection on Predictive Analytics

• The Art of Prescriptive Analytics: Predictive Analytics + Causal Inference + Optimization

• Computational Social Science: Computer Science for Social Science

• Economining: Data Mining and Machine Learning for Empirical Research

• Replication Project (1) Randomized Experiment

• Replication Project (2) Difference-in-Differences

• Replication Project (3) Instrument Variable Approach

• (Lecture) Deep Learning 101 - Part 1.

• (Lecture) Deep Learning 101 - Part 2.

• Web Data Extraction

• Linear Regression in the PyTorch Way
• Neural Network

• Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

- (Application for NLP) Sentence Classification

• Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)

- (Application for NLP) Machine Translation (Sequence-to-Sequence)

• Deep Reinforcement Learning

- Deep Q-Network (DQN)

• Leveraging Deep Learning on Your Computer

- Supervised Learning using Amazon Mechanical Turk

- How to Use Cloud-based APIs

- Running Deep Learning on the Cloud (Amazon Web Service)