Math Camp
Northwestern University – Social Science – Summer 2025
Welcome
This is the website for the 2025 Social Science Math Camp, hosted by the Departments of Political Science and (maybe) Sociology at Northwestern University. The purpose of Math Camp is to give you a chance to brush up on concepts and skills that underlie the practice of quantitative data analysis in the social sciences.
Our schedule features math in the morning and statistical programming in the afternoon. During lunch, we will also have a chance to meet faculty and graduate students and have more informal conversations about the role of methods training in graduate school.
Details
- September 3 – 12
- 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- Scott Hall 212
Schedule
| Day | Date | Morning | Afternoon |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday, September 3 | Introduction | R and RStudio |
| 2 | Thursday, September 4 | Notation, sets, functions | Tidyverse I |
| 3 | Friday, September 5 | Matrices | Tidyverse II |
| 4 | Monday, September 8 | Calculus I | NO MEETING |
| 5 | Tuesday, September 9 | Calculus II | Sampling and simulation |
| 6 | Wednesday, September 10 | Probability | NO MEETING |
| 7 | Thursday, September 11 | NO MEETING | NO MEETING |
| 8 | Friday, September 12 | Review | Markdown |