POLI_SCI 490: Machine Learning in Political Science

Syllabus

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Slides

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Regression

Week 3: Classification

Week 4: Validation, selection, regularization

Week 5: Tree-based methods

Week 6: Neural networks

Week 7: Ensemble learning

Week 8: Unsupervised learning

Week 9: Inference

Week 10: Extensions