Data Science for Political Science

Published

September 1, 2025

Course Notes

This document will include important links and course notes for 01:790:391:01: Data Science for Political Science for the fall 2025 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 recommended textbook 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.