french_rev#

  • Series: lecture-python-intro

  • File: lectures/french_rev.md

  • Audit date: 2026-05-28

  • Categories audited: writing, math, code, figures, references, links, admonitions (JAX out of scope)

  • Overall score: 6.0 / 10

  • Priority: MEDIUM

Score breakdown#

Category

Score

One-line note

Writing

6/10

Many H2 sections in Title Case (W3); long multi-sentence bullets in Overview.

Math

N/A

minimal math notation

Code

7/10

Standard Anaconda imports; spelled-out alpha= only as matplotlib kwarg (acceptable).

JAX

out of scope

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Figures

4/10

Heavy plt.gca().spines['top'/'right'].set_visible(False) pattern (30 spine calls); 3 ax.set_title in solution blocks (OK by exception); figsize= on 1035, 1190; many axis labels with uppercase first letter (Date, Monthly inflation, Real balances).

References

5/10

20 {cite} usages; ~4+ are clearly in-text and should be {cite:t} (e.g. “described by”, “assembled by”, “appear in”, “adopted by”).

Links

9/10

{doc} links used (9 occurrences).

Admonitions

9/10

Solutions gated, dropdown, exercise-linked (qe-admon-001, -002, -005 OK).

Issues#

Critical#

None found.

High severity#

  • W3 — Several H2 section headings use Title Case. Examples: “## Data Sources” (57), “## Government Expenditures and Taxes Collected” (78), “## Hyperinflation Ends” (973), “## Underlying Theories” (984). Count: 4+ headings.

  • [qe-fig-007] — plt.gca().spines['top'/'right'].set_visible(False) pattern repeated throughout. Examples: lines 117–118, 162, etc. Count: 30 spine-removal calls across multiple figures.

  • [qe-ref-001] — Multiple in-text citations using {cite} instead of {cite:t}. Examples: line 19 (“described by {cite}`sargent_velde1995`”), 59 (“assembled by {cite}`sargent_velde1995`”), 84 (“appear in {cite}`sargent_velde1995`”), 626 (“adopted by {cite}`Cagan`”). Count: 4+ occurrences.

Medium severity#

  • W1 — Very long bullet items in Overview that contain multiple sentences (lines 28–53).

  • W7 — Random Title Case mid-prose: “The Twelve Members” (line 53), “Committee of Public Safety”, “Napoleon Bonaparte” — some proper-noun OK; “Wealth of Nations” italicized OK.

  • W2 — H1 has trailing space.

  • [qe-fig-006] — Multiple axis labels begin with uppercase. Examples: “Date” (line 1045), “Monthly inflation (log change)” (1046), “Monthly inflation rate \(\\pi_t\)” (1130), “Real balances (millions of livres)”. Count: 5+ occurrences.

Low severity#

  • W7 — Typo “adminstered” (line 53), “wary” (line 30) probably “war”.

  • [qe-fig-001] — figsize= on lines 1035, 1190. Count: 2 occurrences.

  • [qe-fig-005] — No figures use {figure} with :name:.

Strengths#

  • H1 Title Case OK.

  • Bold for definitions / key terms (tax-smoothing, unpleasant monetarist arithmetic, assignats, gold/silver standard, etc.).

  • {doc} cross-references used (qe-link-002 OK).

  • Solutions all gated, dropdown, linked.