Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.74 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=75 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.77 GPA, 94.8% A/AB (n=58 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 94.2% A/AB (n=52 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Fall 2026
Data Analytics for Economists
ECON 770 teaches quantitative economic research using core datasets and econometric modeling.
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Historical reviews of Kim Ruhl: The course provides hands-on experience with Python, helping students learn programming from scratch.
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Fall 2026Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 94.2% A/AB (n=52 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews for Kim Ruhl describe well-organized lectures that teach Python from scratch and provide hands-on data analysis experience. No current instructor reviews are available to assess Alice Wu or Ashley Swanson.
ALICE WU is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
ASHLEY SWANSON is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
KIM RUHL is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
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| Section | Mode | Enrolled / capacity | Waitlist |
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| LEC 001 | Classroom Instruction | 37 / 50 | 0 |
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Student experience
the class
Kim Ruhl's historical version of ECON 770 offers a well-organized, inspirational introduction to Python for data analysis and visualization, suitable for beginners.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.74 GPA, 96.0% A/AB (n=75 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.77 GPA, 94.8% A/AB (n=58 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.77 GPA, 94.2% A/AB (n=52 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Historical reviews of Kim Ruhl: The course provides hands-on experience with Python, helping students learn programming from scratch.
Historical reviews of Kim Ruhl: Reviewers found the lectures well-organized and inspiring, noting the class effectively teaches data analysis and visualization skills to those with no prior programming background.
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1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
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Data Analytics for Economists
Recorded 2026-09-07Raw records
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nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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