Section 1 Course Notes

This document will include important links and course notes for 01:790:391:01: Data Science for Political Science.

  • This site will be updated throughout the semester with new content.
  • The Canvas modules will provide links to the relevant sections to review for a given week of the course.
  • The primary text for the course is Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction by Kosuke Imai. We will refer to this as QSS in the notes.
  • This is a new and living document. If you spot errors or have questions or suggestions, please email me at or post to the course Piazza site.
  • Occasionally the notes are updated with embedded video explainers of the code in different sections. A list of these is here.