ChicagoFed_workshop

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Possible topics:

• Set up
  • Install Anaconda
  • Install Julia, including package supplied by Viral
  • Review Jupyter notebooks
  • Review other coding environments
  • Install virtual machines and Ubuntu (optional)
• Core Python language
• Scientific Python stack (NumPy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Cython, Numba)
• Python for data science (pandas, Statsmodels)
• Julia language
• Assorted Julia libraries
• QuantEcon.jl and QuantEcon.py
  • Markov chains
  • Discrete DP
  • lqcontrol
• dolo
• parallelization? dask?
• Some of the applications in quant-econ.net (optimal savings? aiyagari?)