Big Data and Machine Learning for Economics and Finance (ECON2333)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2021
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
School
Economics School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Delivery mode
Internal
Class hours
2 Lecture hours
2 Tutorial hours
Prerequisite
ECON1310
Recommended prerequisite
ECON2300
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Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
As bigger datasets become available and more and more companies and institutions require analysis of such a huge amount of information, the fields of Big Data and Machine Learning become more and more essential for economics and business students to learn about. This course builds on the basic knowledge built in elementary econometrics courses and strives to provide basic tools for analysing Big Data. The major topics discussed will be supervised learning (linear regression in high dimensions, classification by logistic regression and support vector machines, splines, nearest neighbours), unsupervised learning and Neural Networks. The course will be practical and will provide students with an R library of computer code to explore the topics in a practical fashion.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) | External | External | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) | External | External | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) | External | External | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |