MUSA-5080-Fall-2025
MUSA 5080: Public Policy Analytics
Fall 2025 • Dr. Elizabeth Delmelle
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lectures/
- Weekly slides and demo code
labs/
- Assignment instructions and templates
resources/
- Setup guides, references, troubleshooting
Lectures
Week 1: Introduction to R and dplyr
Week 2: Algorithmic Decision Making & The Census
Week 3: EDA and Visualization
Week 4: GIS & Spatial Analysis in R
Week 5: Intro to Predictive Modeling with Linear Regression
Week 6: Spatial Machine Learning - Linear Regression Cont.
Week 7: Spatial Machine Learning - Spatial Autocorrelation
Week 9: Predictive Policing, Dirty Data, and Count Regression
Week 10: Logistic Regression - The case of recidivism
Week 11: Space-Time Modeling: Predicting Bike Share
Week 12: K-means and Sequence Analysis for Neighborhood Change
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Lab 4 Instructions
Lab 5 Instructions
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