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Author: Sarah Elizabeth Moore [website; email]
This is the repository for the Math Camp for the Social Sciences at Northwestern University.
In this repository there is a page for each day of work, resources both related to and unrelated to this course, and supplementary material.
| Day | AM content | PM Content | Readings |
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| 1 | Foundations of Quantitative Social Science | Intro to Base R + Other Software | Moore & Siegel, ch. 2 |
| 2 | Algebra and Pre-Calculus | tidyverse I |
Moore & Siegel, ch. 3, ch.4 |
| 3 | Calculus I: Derivatives | tidyverse II |
Moore & Siegel, ch. 5 |
| 4 | Calculus II: Integrals | Tidyverse Recap | Moore & Siegel, ch. 7 |
| 5 | Linear Algebra | Exploratory Data Viz | Boyd and Vandenberge, Skim Sections 1 and 2 |
| 6 | Probability I | Project Management + Version Control in R | Moore & Siegel, ch. 9 |
| 7 | Probability II | Applied Data Project | Moore & Siegel, ch. 10, ch. 11 |
| 8 | Recap | ||
| 9 | Drop-In Review |
Some of the materials here were developed based on the Harvard Math Prefresher for Political Scientists Booklet, the UCSD Political Science Math Camp Booklet, as well as previous iterations of the NU Math Camp curriculum developed by Jean Clipperton.