WAMS 2017 Workshop on Computational Methods
QuantEcon will run two sessions at the Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society, to be held in August 2017 at Australian National University, Canberra. The sessions will provide an overview of modern open source tools and techniques for computational modeling, loosely based on the material in Lectures in Quantitative Economics.
Schedule
Session 1: Tuesday 15 August, 2pm - 5pm
Session 2: Wednesday 16 August, 2pm - 4pm
Location
Gruen Seminar Room, H.W. Arndt Building 25A, ANU Research School of Economics
Outline
Session 1 will cover:
- Introduction to Python for scientific computing
- Jupyter notebooks, scientific workflow
- Python for data handling, analysis, and visualisation
Session 2 will cover:
- An introduction to Julia
- Applications
Instructions
Please be sure to bring your laptop to the workshop. If possible,
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For session 1 install Anaconda Python
- Please follow the instructions on this page
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For session 2 install Julia
- Please follow the instructions on this page
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.