Alpha Spaces

Causal AI & Simulation

A 16-week curriculum on bridging reasoning and dynamics for smarter interventions in complex systems.

Spot spurious correlations and generate synthetic confounded data.

Learning Objectives
  • Understand the difference between correlation and causation.
  • Identify spurious correlations in real-world examples.
  • Generate confounded data to see how spurious relationships arise.
Test Your Knowledge

Resources

reading

Book of Why (Intro)

by Pearl & Mackenzie

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Spurious Correlations

by Tyler Vigen

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