Economics, statistics, public policy, quantitative
tools
I also frequently post
useful/interesting tools/links on a different page (follow the
link).
Efficiently mapping with
ggplot2: Example of how the R package
rmapshaper can reduce the time and memory required to make
(pretty) maps from shapefiles.
Sunday, 08 August
2017
Counting lines of R code: A quick
script to count all of th lines of R code that you have
written.
Sunday, 30 July 2017
Updating intuition on attenuation
bias: I replicate and discuss a recent paper by Loken and Gelman.
The paper demonstrates that our typical statistical/econometric
intuition regarding measurement error may not be quite correct.
Thursday, 30 March 2017
When R environments matter: A
common-use example of when R environments matter and the errors that can
occur when we ignore the environment.
Saturday, 10 December
2016