UNSW Computational Economics Workshop
QuantEcon will be running a half-day workshop in computational economics at UNSW on August 11, 2017. The workshop will provide a quick start introduction to programming in Python and Julia for economists.
Our target audience is current PhD students who are curious about Python and Julia, and how they might be useful for research in quantitative economics. Faculty are also welcome to attend. Content will be loosely based on the material in Lectures in Quantitative Economics.
Time: August 11, 1pm - 5pm
Location: K-G6-G15 – Blockhouse G15,UNSW
Registration: Please register here
Cost: Free
Topics
- Introduction to Python and Julia for scientific computing
- Jupyter notebooks, scientific workflow
- Python for data handling, analysis, and visualisation
Instructions
Be sure to bring your laptop to the workshop. If possible, before coming, please
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Install Anaconda Python
- Instructions, further details and next steps can be found in this lecture
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Install Julia
- Instructions, further details and next steps can be found in this lecture
All languages and computing platforms we use are free and open source. Troubleshooting of installations and other software issues will be available in the first session.
Resources
The following resources will be useful during and after:
Presenters
Matthew McKay, John Stachurski, Natasha Watkins
Contact
For requests or feedback, please email contact@quantecon.org.