Evaluation, data science, the causal revolution, and the tidyverse
Read before class on Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Required
- The syllabus and assignments pages for this class
- Chapter 1 in Impact Evaluation in Practice1
- DJ Patil, "What Makes a Radical and Revolutionary Technology?2
- Stephen Goldsmith, “Next Generation of Public Employees Must Understand Data and Policy”
- Chris Sommerfeld, “The Rise of the Data Scientists”
- Zack Quaintance, “Summit on Data-Smart Government Day Two Shows How Fast the Discipline Has Grown”
- Hadley Wickham, “Data Science: How is it Different To Statistics?”
Paul J. Gertler et al., Impact Evaluation in Practice, 2nd ed. (Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank, 2016), https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/25030.↩︎
DJ Patil is the former Chief Data Scientist of the United States under President Obama. He gave this forum address at Brigham Young University on February 13, 2018.↩︎