Kyle Butts
@kylefbutts.bsky.social
Concerned about the southern heat? Being within the Ozarks, makes the summer not too bad. Plus the winter is very temperate..
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Concerned about the southern heat? Being within the Ozarks, makes the summer not too bad. Plus the winter is very temperate..
If sports are your thing, there's no place better than the SEC
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
If sports are your thing, there's no place better than the SEC
Walmart, JB Hunt, Tyson Chicken are all headquartered here. Many large companies have campuses here as well.
This younger demographic brings a lot of consumptive amenities, like great food! Dinner with speakers is a nice treat..
This younger demographic brings a lot of consumptive amenities, like great food! Dinner with speakers is a nice treat..
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Walmart, JB Hunt, Tyson Chicken are all headquartered here. Many large companies have campuses here as well.
This younger demographic brings a lot of consumptive amenities, like great food! Dinner with speakers is a nice treat..
This younger demographic brings a lot of consumptive amenities, like great food! Dinner with speakers is a nice treat..
The arts scene is magnificent:
- Walton Arts Center brings in Broadway shows all year
- Crystal Bridges is a world class art musuem
- The AMP has great live music
- Walton Arts Center brings in Broadway shows all year
- Crystal Bridges is a world class art musuem
- The AMP has great live music
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The arts scene is magnificent:
- Walton Arts Center brings in Broadway shows all year
- Crystal Bridges is a world class art musuem
- The AMP has great live music
- Walton Arts Center brings in Broadway shows all year
- Crystal Bridges is a world class art musuem
- The AMP has great live music
We are in the beautiful Ozark mountains with tons of hikes and incredible mountain biking opportunities.
The Razorback greenway makes biking to and from campus very easy and there's a few breweries along the way..
The Razorback greenway makes biking to and from campus very easy and there's a few breweries along the way..
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are in the beautiful Ozark mountains with tons of hikes and incredible mountain biking opportunities.
The Razorback greenway makes biking to and from campus very easy and there's a few breweries along the way..
The Razorback greenway makes biking to and from campus very easy and there's a few breweries along the way..
Come be a razorback! We are hiring two positions this year at the U of Arkansas!
Macro/General Equilibrium: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Applied Micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Northwest Arkansas is consistently ranked one of the best places to live. Here's some highlights!
Macro/General Equilibrium: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Applied Micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Northwest Arkansas is consistently ranked one of the best places to live. Here's some highlights!
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Come be a razorback! We are hiring two positions this year at the U of Arkansas!
Macro/General Equilibrium: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Applied Micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Northwest Arkansas is consistently ranked one of the best places to live. Here's some highlights!
Macro/General Equilibrium: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Applied Micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
Northwest Arkansas is consistently ranked one of the best places to live. Here's some highlights!
github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.
TIL how to download census data (www2.census.gov) super simply.
Finder: Go > Connect to Server > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/. Login as guest and 🤯
Finder: Go > Connect to Server > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/. Login as guest and 🤯
April 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
TIL how to download census data (www2.census.gov) super simply.
Finder: Go > Connect to Server > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/. Login as guest and 🤯
Finder: Go > Connect to Server > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/. Login as guest and 🤯
R tip: If you run code but forget to save it in a variable, you can use `.Last.value` in the console.
More, if you want to copy the result to your clipboard, use `clipr::write_last_clip`:
More, if you want to copy the result to your clipboard, use `clipr::write_last_clip`:
March 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
R tip: If you run code but forget to save it in a variable, you can use `.Last.value` in the console.
More, if you want to copy the result to your clipboard, use `clipr::write_last_clip`:
More, if you want to copy the result to your clipboard, use `clipr::write_last_clip`:
WHAT YOU THOUGHT I ONLY HAVE 1 CUTE DOG ?? THINK AGAIN
February 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
WHAT YOU THOUGHT I ONLY HAVE 1 CUTE DOG ?? THINK AGAIN
snow day in Fayetteville
February 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
snow day in Fayetteville
never felt so seen
December 13, 2024 at 11:38 AM
never felt so seen
Working on my applied metrics course; Here are my figures using Ashenfelter's dip (1978 paper)
November 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Working on my applied metrics course; Here are my figures using Ashenfelter's dip (1978 paper)
Been formalizing a lot of my workflow into R packages. Today, I have added `tikzsave` to `kfbmisc` package for making figures:
ggplot() -> tikzpicture -> pre-compiled into pdf (using latex themes)
gist.github.com/kylebutts/9c...
ggplot() -> tikzpicture -> pre-compiled into pdf (using latex themes)
gist.github.com/kylebutts/9c...
January 24, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Been formalizing a lot of my workflow into R packages. Today, I have added `tikzsave` to `kfbmisc` package for making figures:
ggplot() -> tikzpicture -> pre-compiled into pdf (using latex themes)
gist.github.com/kylebutts/9c...
ggplot() -> tikzpicture -> pre-compiled into pdf (using latex themes)
gist.github.com/kylebutts/9c...
R Tip: if you have are doing some piping and want to make a quick plot or table, use base R's `with` function (`within` is great too!)
December 11, 2023 at 10:36 PM
R Tip: if you have are doing some piping and want to make a quick plot or table, use base R's `with` function (`within` is great too!)
WIP: Write R scripts like you normally do and have them automagically turn into a git-friendly log book that you can share with your coauthors using quarto
html: kylebutts.github.io/repro_project/
md: github.com/kylebutts/re...
html: kylebutts.github.io/repro_project/
md: github.com/kylebutts/re...
December 8, 2023 at 6:20 PM
WIP: Write R scripts like you normally do and have them automagically turn into a git-friendly log book that you can share with your coauthors using quarto
html: kylebutts.github.io/repro_project/
md: github.com/kylebutts/re...
html: kylebutts.github.io/repro_project/
md: github.com/kylebutts/re...
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...
Delighted by this really well-made interactive site about all different probability distributions: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...
October 31, 2023 at 1:18 PM
Delighted by this really well-made interactive site about all different probability distributions: www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...
Not sure of an easy way; probably need to hand-make a table.
The rd family of packages make it kind of hard to find the underlying results in the returned object. You can see all the data returned by using `str(est)` on the object
The rd family of packages make it kind of hard to find the underlying results in the returned object. You can see all the data returned by using `str(est)` on the object
October 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Not sure of an easy way; probably need to hand-make a table.
The rd family of packages make it kind of hard to find the underlying results in the returned object. You can see all the data returned by using `str(est)` on the object
The rd family of packages make it kind of hard to find the underlying results in the returned object. You can see all the data returned by using `str(est)` on the object
While prepping my JMP slides, I've made some pretty cool updates to my latex slides template:
- color rows/cells (with reveal options)
- bottom left beamer buttons: \bottomleft{}
- customize theme colors(!)
- full-size figures: \imageframe{}
github.com/kylebutts/la...
- color rows/cells (with reveal options)
- bottom left beamer buttons: \bottomleft{}
- customize theme colors(!)
- full-size figures: \imageframe{}
github.com/kylebutts/la...
October 26, 2023 at 4:04 PM
While prepping my JMP slides, I've made some pretty cool updates to my latex slides template:
- color rows/cells (with reveal options)
- bottom left beamer buttons: \bottomleft{}
- customize theme colors(!)
- full-size figures: \imageframe{}
github.com/kylebutts/la...
- color rows/cells (with reveal options)
- bottom left beamer buttons: \bottomleft{}
- customize theme colors(!)
- full-size figures: \imageframe{}
github.com/kylebutts/la...
I'm unreasonably excited about the \bottomleft{\beamerbutton{}} trick I've added to my latex-slides template. Look how nice they are down there!!
github.com/kylebutts/te...
github.com/kylebutts/te...
October 18, 2023 at 3:16 PM
I'm unreasonably excited about the \bottomleft{\beamerbutton{}} trick I've added to my latex-slides template. Look how nice they are down there!!
github.com/kylebutts/te...
github.com/kylebutts/te...
New package `fwlplot` is ready to be tried out by some volunteers! This is a 1:1 drop-in replacement for `feols` but instead produces a scatter plot of residualized y on residualized x (first x-var in formula).
Works with fixest multi features, e.g.
github.com/kylebutts/fw...
Works with fixest multi features, e.g.
github.com/kylebutts/fw...
October 12, 2023 at 5:07 PM
New package `fwlplot` is ready to be tried out by some volunteers! This is a 1:1 drop-in replacement for `feols` but instead produces a scatter plot of residualized y on residualized x (first x-var in formula).
Works with fixest multi features, e.g.
github.com/kylebutts/fw...
Works with fixest multi features, e.g.
github.com/kylebutts/fw...
Really great timing for this R&R 🥳
October 12, 2023 at 1:16 AM
Really great timing for this R&R 🥳