ECO489H1

Big-Data Tools for Economists

An introduction to the big' data tools-including Machine-Learning techniques' economists increasingly use in applied research. The course explores unstructured data sources such as text files, webpages, social media posts, satellite imagery, and weather data. It offers a practical introduction to creating datasets from these sources (e.g., web scraping), linking data, and managing and visualizing them (e.g., geospatial visualization).