inflation_history#

  • Series: lecture-python-intro

  • File: lectures/inflation_history.md

  • Audit date: 2026-05-28

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

  • Overall score: 6.6 / 10

  • Priority: MEDIUM

Score breakdown#

Category

Score

One-line note

Writing

8/10

H1 Title Case OK; H2/H3 sentence case (country names retained as proper nouns); one-sentence paragraphs.

Math

N/A

trivial price-level notation only

Code

8/10

!pip install on lines 25, 37 — line 25 has hide-output (tagged on line 23) but line 37 is a stray mid-lecture install; standard Anaconda imports otherwise.

JAX

out of scope

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Figures

5/10

figsize= on lines 110, 810, 890, 910; 4 ax.set_title(...) inside solution blocks (OK by exception); axis labels with leading capitals throughout (“Year”, “Index 1913 = 100”, “Logs of price levels…”, “Price level”, “Exchange rate”, “Inflation rate”).

References

4/10

10 {cite} usages, all in-text (e.g. “on page 35 of {cite}”, “from chapter 3 of {cite}”) — all should be {cite:t}.

Links

8/10

{doc} cross-series links used (5 occurrences).

Admonitions

9/10

7 admonitions (note/warning) used; 3 solutions gated, dropdown, exercise-linked.

Issues#

Critical#

None found.

High severity#

  • [qe-ref-001] — Multiple in-text citations using {cite} instead of {cite:t}. Examples: line 69 (“page 35 of {cite}`sargent2002big`”), 164 (“page 35 of {cite}`sargent2002big`”), 215 (“from chapter 3 of {cite}`sargent2013rational`”), 225, 227, 502, 565, 646, 668, 672. Count: 10 occurrences. Systemic.

  • [qe-fig-001] — figsize= overrides on lines 110, 810, 890, 910. Count: 4 occurrences.

  • [qe-fig-006] — Multiple axis labels begin with uppercase: “Year”, “Index 1913 = 100” (lines 117, 189), “Logs of price levels…”, “Price level”, “Exchange rate”, “Inflation rate”. Count: 5+ occurrences.

Medium severity#

  • W1 — Some multi-sentence paragraphs (lines 138–143).

  • [qe-code-003] — Stray !pip install on line 37 should be merged with the install block at line 25.

Low severity#

  • W2 — H1 has trailing whitespace “Price Level Histories “.

  • W7 — Mid-sentence capitalization for events (“Civil War”, “French Revolution”) — proper nouns, acceptable.

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

Strengths#

  • Section headings comply with W2/W3.

  • Clean prose, one-sentence paragraphs mostly maintained.

  • Bold for definition (inflation).

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

  • Solutions gated, dropdown, linked.