Schedule and Slides

Data Science and AI, Fall 2025

Week	Date	Topic	Slides	Labs
1	8/28	Introduction to course content, Data Science, AI and Economics, Introduction to basic data analysis process	Lec0
2	9/4	Introduction to Git and GitHub	Lec1	Lab1A Lab1B
3	9/11	Introduction to R, Rmardown, Git and GitHub(Continued)	Lec2
4	9/18	Introduction to spatial data and GIS analysis: Using NASA night light data as an example	Lec3	Lab3 Data
5	9/25	Introduction to spatial data and GIS analysis: Using NASA night light data as an example	Lec4	Lab4 Data
6	10/2	National Day
7	10/9	Introduction to VS Code, R and Github	Lec5
8	10/16	Introduction to VS Code and Python	Lec6
9	10/23	Introduction to AI tools(Copilot) to Coding	Lec7
10	10/31	OCR and text recognition: Based on Baidu PaddlePaddle platforms	Lec8
11	11/7	OCR and text recognition: Based on Baidu PaddlePaddle platform
12	11/14	Web scraping: Based on Baidu search (or Sina Weibo)
13	11/21	Web scraping: Based on Baidu search (or Sina Weibo)
10	11/28	Research Project Proposal Presentations	Students Presentations
14	12/5	Text as Data
15	12/12	Text as Data
16	12/19	Introduction to Big Data
17	12/26	Research Project Report Presentations	Students Presentations