Data Science for Political Science

Course Notes

This document will include important links and course notes for 01:790:391:01: Data Science for Political Science for the fall 2023 semester.

• 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 living document. If you spot errors or have questions or suggestions, please email me at k.mccabe@rutgers.edu or post to the course Canvas site.
• Occasionally the notes are updated with embedded video explainers of portions of the code in different sections. These will be located in the playlist linked here.

In addition, the chat bot below can be used to ask questions about material included on lecture slides posted on Canvas as well as the pdf version of this website, which can be accessed using the pdf icon in the top-left sidebar of this page.