About me

• Associate Professor of Political Science, since Fall 2020

• Previously Associate Professor of Political Science and Statistics at Iowa State University (2015-2020).

• My research areas are network analysis, spatial statistics, substantive focus on non-state violent actors

• [www.olgachyzh.com], olga.chyzh@utoronto.ca

Outline

• Objectives, software

• Assessments

• Getting started

"Tall-Order" Objective

• Get introduced to a range of cutting-edge techniques for analyzing political and social data

Objectives

• Learn the conceptual basics behind each technique

• Understand its applications

• Apply to real data

• Breadth over depth

Set-up

• About 2:1 split of class between teaching:practice

• After each class, upload your R script to Quercus to get credit.

Assessments

• Participation, discussion of assigned readings --- 20%

• 3 assignments (20%, 20%, 30%)

• Apply the tools learned in class to your own data.

• As we go through applications, start thinking of your own examples

Lectures

• Slides, assignments, and all materials are posted on the course website

• Start working on the assignments today!

What You Already Know

• Have you taken an Intro to Statistics?

• Have you used R before?

• For more than a year?

Software to Download

• R

• RStudio

The RStudio IDE