QuantEcon discussion for the Berkeley Data Science x Economics conference
- Origins of QuantEcon
- Growth of lecture series
- Spinning off libraries (Python, Julia)
- In house publishing via Jupinx
- To hardcopy or not to hardcopy?
- Executable Book Project and the move to Jupyter Book
- Hybrid course on economics and data science at UBC, based on QuantEcon DataScience
- Data wrangling and analysis using Pandas
- Basic machine learning and econometric applications
- Lecture notebooks on cloud-based Jupyter hub on campus: ubc.syzygy.ca
- Student feedback, and final project showcases
- Teaching data science, finance, and economics (Peking HSBC Business School)
- Why companies are hiring economists
- Importance of teaching software engineering (and other non-analytical tools) to non-software engineers
- Computational economics course at ANU
- Remote teaching using screencasting
- Using Jupinx to keep track of lectures and assignment notebooks
- Using GitHub Classrooms for interactions with the students