AI for Applied Economics

Here are the example codebooks, the PDF of the slides used during the talk as well as the slides that illustrate some of the ways of leaning on using LLMs locally.

Main Deck of Slides

Small Slides with examples for local AI deployment

Code examples from the lectures

For me, these slides are capturing a bit of a journey though my own learning over time, getting first involvement with generative models as well as traditional NLP during my PhD studies building an automated conflict event retrieval pipeline. The intellectual journey is captured in these sets of slides that I hope other people may find useful. The slides also contain broader commentary over geopolitics, etc.

Slide Deck 1 – Introduction

Slide Deck 2 – “Laws” in linguistics, NGram and POS – or thinking of networks around language

Slide Deck 3 – Latent structure and generative models – Topic modeling

Slide Deck 4 – Embeddings

Slide Deck 5 – Recurrent Neural Networks

Slide Deck 6 – Transformer Architecture

Slide Deck 7 – Working with LLMs