ICPSR 2026 — Introduction to Python

A one-week introduction to Python for social scientists, taught at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. The course assumes no prior coding background and focuses on the practical skills social scientists need: data manipulation, web scraping, API usage, and basic natural language processing.

Slides

• Day 1 — Getting started with Python
• Day 2 — Flow control and data types
• Day 3 — Functions and object-oriented programming
• Day 4 — NumPy, pandas, and APIs
• Day 5 — Web scraping and text-as-data

Syllabus

Syllabus PDF: coming soon — there are two parallel sections; the canonical version will be linked here once finalized.

Source

The source .qmd files live in a separate repository; rendered HTML is hosted here. If you spot an error or have a suggestion, email me.