Lectures - Center for Korean Economy and K-Academics at SNU

Extracting Economic Indicators from Historical Maps

•Instructor : Hyunjoo Yang
•Year : Year 5(2025-2026)
•Difficulty : Advanced
•Target : Universal
•Field : Economy and Society
•Type : Ordinary
•Week : 12 Weeks
•Keywords
Historical Map, Georeferencing, Grid-based Tiling, Computer Vision, Data Preprocessing

Summary

Under the theme of 'Extracting Economic Indicators Using Historical Maps,' this course covers methods for converting humanistic information contained in images into valuable quantitative data. Students will learn step-by-step, starting from basic data processing using Python and Pandas, to georeferencing techniques that assign spatial information to old maps, and image classification and regression analysis technologies using deep learning. Through this, students will learn methodologies to extract information directly using AI, going beyond merely viewing historical map information visually.

Instructor

Hyunjoo Yang
1. Affiliation
School of Economics, Sogang University

2. Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Brown University

3. Selected Publications
"In strongman we trust: The political legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea", American Journal of Political Science 67(4), 2023
"The effects of South Korean Protestantism on human capital and female empowerment, 1930–2010", Journal of Comparative Economics 51(2), 2023.
et al.

Guidebooks

week01.pdf (1 MB)

week02.pdf (1 MB)

week03.pdf (1 MB)

week04.pdf (1 MB)

week05.pdf (1 MB)

week06.pdf (2 MB)

week07.pdf (1 MB)

week08.pdf (1 MB)

week09.pdf (1 MB)

week10.pdf (1 MB)

exam.pdf (278 KB)

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