Fundamentals of Economics

This introductory course in Data Science and Economics is based on a Connector Course taught at UC Berkeley as a Connector between the field of Economics and the popular Introduction to Data Science Course. In this first course we cover Demand, Supply , Equilibrium, and Taxes. This course is of interest to the growing number of students interested in the overlap between Economics and Data Science. The course gives learners a chance to apply programming approaches to economics concepts and gives economics students a chance to strengthen programming skills. This program is offered in collaboration with edX, which is an online program manager (OPM) company. The roles and responsibilities of the OPM partner in the offering of the program are to provide the learning platform for the delivery of academic content, technical support for said platform, marketing support for the courses and programs, and creation of any credentials earned by the learner. UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley faculty are responsible for the creation of accessible academic content, instruction, grading and assessment.

• Understand basic concepts of Economics through programming
• Visualize Demand and Supply curves as deriving from Data
• Be able to code and solve simple equations in Python
• Able to graph basic equations used in microeconomics
• Applications/ Illustrations from topics in the fields of Economics

• Data 8X