Gov 50: Data Science for the Social Sciences

Sections

Section	Time	Location
D003	Wednesdays, 4:30–5:45 pm	CGIS South S040
D012	Wednesdays, 6:00–7:15 pm	CGIS South S040

Locations subject to change. Check this page or Ed for updates.

Office Hours

Wednesdays, 7:15–9:15 pm

CGIS South S040

Calendly

Reserve a slot on Calendly or walk in. I reserve the right to end early if no one is present and no one has reserved on Calendly. If the time doesn't work for you, email me to set up an appointment. Locations subject to change. Check this page or Ed for updates.

Policies

Be present at all lectures and sections. Check in with the course assistant to make sure your attendance is recorded.
Submit homework typed. Graphs may be drawn by hand.

Section Materials

Section 1

Problem set: Getting Started with R & Data Visualization pdf

Section 2

Slides: How to Read pdf

Gerber, Green & Larimer (2008), “Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment,” American Political Science Review journal

Barber & Pope (2019), “Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in America,” American Political Science Review journal

Acharya, Blackwell & Sen (2016), “The Political Legacy of American Slavery,” Journal of Politics journal

Ballot: which paper we replicate, and how to form groups form

Section 3

Lab: R basics pdf Rmd

Reading for section 4 hw 003grps 012grps

Section 5

Lab data: House NOMINATE scores, 1879 to 2025 (from Voteview) nominate.csv

Contact

Email me at acamara@g.harvard.edu. For questions about course content, please use Ed so everyone can benefit from the answer.