Teaching

University of Toronto

Current

• Advanced Data Analysis (SOC6708, graduate level). Winter 2026. Materials are here.
• Special Topics in Applied Statistics (STA2053, graduate level). Winter 2026. Materials are here.

Past

• Applied Statistics II (STA2201H, graduate level). Winter 2020-2024.
• Intermediate Quantitative Methods (SOC252H1S, undergraduate level). Fall 2020, Winter 2023.
• Stats for Sociologists (SOC6302H, graduate level). Winter 2023.
• Intermediate Data Analysis (SOC6707H, graduate level). Winter 2021, 2022, 2024.
• Demographic Methods (STA4525H). Winter 2019, Summer 2020. All materials for the course are here.
• Sociology R Quant camp, 4 September 2024
  • Slides: Module 1; Module 2; Module 3
  • Data is here
  • Code is here
• Sociology Math Quant camp, 6 September 2023
  • Math slides
  • Probability slides

Other

• I ran a workshop on ‘Non-traditional data sources in demography’ at Cedeplar in April 2022. All the materials and code are here: https://mjalexander.github.io/demopop-workshop/
• I ran a workshop on ‘Social Media for Population Research’ for CAnD3 Fellows in April 2021. All the materials and code are here: https://mjalexander.github.io/social_media_workshop/