Avinno Faruk
@avinnofaruk.bsky.social
MSEC’24 @DukeEcon & @DukeCompSci | 🇧🇩| avinnofaruk.github.io
Very informative #blueskAI 🤖
Want to see the bleeding edge of AI research? Check out this cool visualization of abstracts from the 2024 NeurIPS conference: alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2024/ne...
January 23, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Very informative #blueskAI 🤖
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A searchable, linked list of 🏛 #Government agencies at the national, state, and local level who are using GitHub to share and collaborate.
government.github.com/community/
government.github.com/community/
Who’s using GitHub?
Government agencies at the national, state, and local level use GitHub to share and collaborate. If you don’t see your organization on this list, follow the instructions below to add it!
government.github.com
January 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
A searchable, linked list of 🏛 #Government agencies at the national, state, and local level who are using GitHub to share and collaborate.
government.github.com/community/
government.github.com/community/
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📈📉There’s a kind of paper that uses a “Sherlock Holmes” mode of inference. Start with an interesting fact, lay out the likely suspects, eliminate all but one, and the remaining one is the best explanation. What are some papers that do this well?
January 11, 2024 at 9:13 PM
📈📉There’s a kind of paper that uses a “Sherlock Holmes” mode of inference. Start with an interesting fact, lay out the likely suspects, eliminate all but one, and the remaining one is the best explanation. What are some papers that do this well?
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This week's links include insights from AEA keynotes by Susan Athey and Pol Antras, data on the use of Stata vs R in replication packages, an overview of what climate change means for firms in developing countries, therapy and development, and more...
Weekly links January 12, 2024: AEA keynotes, therapy and development, Stata vs R popularity over tim...
This week's links include AEA keynote talks by Susan Athey and Pol Antras, a review of how psychotherapy helps development outcomes, how to think about climate change and firms, the Stata vs R usage i...
blogs.worldbank.org
January 12, 2024 at 2:17 PM
This week's links include insights from AEA keynotes by Susan Athey and Pol Antras, data on the use of Stata vs R in replication packages, an overview of what climate change means for firms in developing countries, therapy and development, and more...
#EconSky this is pretty cool!
Also, this Yale project to emulate old software for reading older data is very cool
preservica.com/resources/bl...
preservica.com/resources/bl...
January 8, 2024 at 7:36 PM
#EconSky this is pretty cool!
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Celebrating the re-opening of CRAN with a brand new version of Patchwork 🎉
Data Imaginist - A small patch of free features
patchwork 1.2.0 is out with two outstanding new features. Read on to learn more
www.data-imaginist.com
January 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Celebrating the re-opening of CRAN with a brand new version of Patchwork 🎉
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What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature by @ainedoran.bsky.social, @cliochris.bsky.social & @eoinaldo.bsky.social.
New and #OA!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🛟 📗📉📈🗃#Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #HistSci #AcademicSky
New and #OA!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🛟 📗📉📈🗃#Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #HistSci #AcademicSky
Redirecting
doi.org
January 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature by @ainedoran.bsky.social, @cliochris.bsky.social & @eoinaldo.bsky.social.
New and #OA!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🛟 📗📉📈🗃#Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #HistSci #AcademicSky
New and #OA!
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🛟 📗📉📈🗃#Episky #history #demography #polisky #geosky #sociology #anthro #HistSci #AcademicSky
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Phew, v9.0 of my program evaluation / causal inference class is now live! All the assignments use #QuartoPub and the native |> #rstats pipe, so hopefully nothing catastrophic happens because of all those changes 🤞 evalsp24.classes.andrewheiss.com
Program Evaluation - Program Evaluation for Public Service
Combine research design, causal inference, and econometric tools to measure the effects of social programs
evalsp24.classes.andrewheiss.com
January 4, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Phew, v9.0 of my program evaluation / causal inference class is now live! All the assignments use #QuartoPub and the native |> #rstats pipe, so hopefully nothing catastrophic happens because of all those changes 🤞 evalsp24.classes.andrewheiss.com
#EconSky Unpopular opinion, but I really find all this Stata vs R vs Python vs whatnot debates among economists really tiresome.
A 🧵:
Everything has its pros and cons, as well as use cases.
Personally speaking, I gravitate towards Python mostly for most tasks these days. It’s fast for large (1/n)
A 🧵:
Everything has its pros and cons, as well as use cases.
Personally speaking, I gravitate towards Python mostly for most tasks these days. It’s fast for large (1/n)
December 23, 2023 at 3:02 PM
#EconSky Unpopular opinion, but I really find all this Stata vs R vs Python vs whatnot debates among economists really tiresome.
A 🧵:
Everything has its pros and cons, as well as use cases.
Personally speaking, I gravitate towards Python mostly for most tasks these days. It’s fast for large (1/n)
A 🧵:
Everything has its pros and cons, as well as use cases.
Personally speaking, I gravitate towards Python mostly for most tasks these days. It’s fast for large (1/n)
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Chris Walter's Mixtape Session on Empirical Bayes methods is next week! I developed this app to build intuition on linear shrinkage estimators (on simulated school value-added data)
Shiny app: mixtape.shinyapps.io/Linear-Shrin...
More info on the course: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/empi...
Shiny app: mixtape.shinyapps.io/Linear-Shrin...
More info on the course: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/empi...
November 2, 2023 at 10:45 PM
Chris Walter's Mixtape Session on Empirical Bayes methods is next week! I developed this app to build intuition on linear shrinkage estimators (on simulated school value-added data)
Shiny app: mixtape.shinyapps.io/Linear-Shrin...
More info on the course: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/empi...
Shiny app: mixtape.shinyapps.io/Linear-Shrin...
More info on the course: www.mixtapesessions.io/session/empi...
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Incredibly useful resource: Power analysis collaborative guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 26, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Incredibly useful resource: Power analysis collaborative guide docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Econometrics Thread (#EconSky)
Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions.
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Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions.
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October 15, 2023 at 11:45 PM
Econometrics Thread (#EconSky)
Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions.
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Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions.
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Prediction fails
October 16, 2023 at 12:25 AM
Prediction fails
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A list of financial data sources, curated for political economy use cases. Official statistics as well as datasets compiled by organizations and academic researchers. Originally assembled for my students, now available on my website. Suggestions welcome!
benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat...
benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat...
October 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM
A list of financial data sources, curated for political economy use cases. Official statistics as well as datasets compiled by organizations and academic researchers. Originally assembled for my students, now available on my website. Suggestions welcome!
benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat...
benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat...
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This how papers should also be written, like nested Russian dolls.
The title, the abstract, the intro, the paper, the paper+appendix, are essentially your entire range of “spiels” targeted at audiences with different attention span/interest in your work.
The title, the abstract, the intro, the paper, the paper+appendix, are essentially your entire range of “spiels” targeted at audiences with different attention span/interest in your work.
October 13, 2023 at 7:14 PM
This how papers should also be written, like nested Russian dolls.
The title, the abstract, the intro, the paper, the paper+appendix, are essentially your entire range of “spiels” targeted at audiences with different attention span/interest in your work.
The title, the abstract, the intro, the paper, the paper+appendix, are essentially your entire range of “spiels” targeted at audiences with different attention span/interest in your work.
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Here are 25+ journals where economists publish review papers. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
October 12, 2023 at 6:37 PM
Here are 25+ journals where economists publish review papers. bit.ly/3QfaE6m
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Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.
October 12, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.
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Today's Nobel for Claudia Goldin is inspiring in so many ways.
One of them is recognizing important *descriptive* work built painstakingly over decades. This is rare.
Two big examples are Fogel (C.Goldin's advisor) and Kuznets (Fogel's advisor). Few other examples (Stone, Deaton, Ostrom?).
One of them is recognizing important *descriptive* work built painstakingly over decades. This is rare.
Two big examples are Fogel (C.Goldin's advisor) and Kuznets (Fogel's advisor). Few other examples (Stone, Deaton, Ostrom?).
October 9, 2023 at 8:10 PM
Today's Nobel for Claudia Goldin is inspiring in so many ways.
One of them is recognizing important *descriptive* work built painstakingly over decades. This is rare.
Two big examples are Fogel (C.Goldin's advisor) and Kuznets (Fogel's advisor). Few other examples (Stone, Deaton, Ostrom?).
One of them is recognizing important *descriptive* work built painstakingly over decades. This is rare.
Two big examples are Fogel (C.Goldin's advisor) and Kuznets (Fogel's advisor). Few other examples (Stone, Deaton, Ostrom?).
#EconSky do you have good examples of research statements?
October 8, 2023 at 2:19 PM
#EconSky do you have good examples of research statements?
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This is spot on.
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we@jpeg)
October 3, 2023 at 10:13 AM
This is spot on.
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Making figures for academic articles? This guide (just updated) covers the basics of getting the fonts, legends, axes, dimensions, + many other aspects right:
medium.com/the-stata-gu...
No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!
medium.com/the-stata-gu...
No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!
Stata graph tips for academic articles
Learn tips and tricks for optimizing Stata graphs for journal articles.
medium.com
October 3, 2023 at 10:53 AM
Making figures for academic articles? This guide (just updated) covers the basics of getting the fonts, legends, axes, dimensions, + many other aspects right:
medium.com/the-stata-gu...
No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!
medium.com/the-stata-gu...
No fancy #Stata packages, just basic fine tuning can get you very far!
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Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources.
I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...
I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...
GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the...
Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine) - GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine)
github.com
October 2, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources.
I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...
I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...