POLS/CS&SS 503: Advanced Quantitative Political Methodology

Course materials for POLS/CS&SS 503, University of Washington, Spring 2015.

Course website is at https://UW-POLS503.github.io/pols_503_sp15/

Contents

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├── csl
├── hw
├── labs
├── lectures
├── LICENSE.md
├── notes
├── pols_503_sp15.bib
├── README.md
└── web

• READMDE.md : you're reading it
• csl : CSL style sheets used to format
• labs : sources for the labs
• hw : homework assignments (not the solutions - which are kept separate)
• lectures : sources for the lectures
• notes : Some notes about course development. Things that may or may not make it into more public facing parts of the course.
• pols_503_sp15.bib: bibliography
• web : materials for the webs

How to Create the Website

The files for the site are in the directory web.

This site is built using the static site generator Nikola with Python 3.

Install the latest version of Nikola and then build the site

> cd web
> nikola build

and serve it locally

> nikola serve

Another way to install the dependencies to build the website is using the Python 3 venv module, which replaced the virtual environments in Python 2. Install venv. In Ubuntu this can be installed with

> apt-get install python3-venv

Then create and activate a local environment

> pyvenv-3.4 venv
> source venv/bin/activate

One the virtual environment is activated, install the dependencies with

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Additionally this site requires the following (in addition to some libraries required by the python packages):

• pandoc
• pandoc-citeproc

In Ubuntu, these can be installed with

> apt-get install pandoc pandoc-citeproc

Dependencies

• Fonts: DejaVu Sans Mono, Open Sans, Lato

• R

  • readr
  • car
  • ggplot2
  • mvtnorm