Vlad Tarko
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Vlad Tarko
@vladtarko.bsky.social
Prof of political economy at University of Arizona. Economic/political institutions, microeconomics and game theory, political/moral philosophy, #rstats My books: https://amzn.to/37TkK5P
What are some good studies about why US healthcare is so much more expensive than European systems? I'm guessing restricted supply is part of the story, but far from all.
December 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM
December 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Universal structure of grammar.
December 1, 2024 at 1:53 PM
If you're using #rstats and ggplot, it's easy to have line plots with labels on the right:

- drop the NAs for the variable of interest
- define label variable for only the end
- use ggrepel to make the labels with some nudge_x
- remove legend

Example:
November 26, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Are you grading A > B > C > D or A > C > B > D?
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Pretty remarkable prediction for 1993. #SEA2024
November 25, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Made a #rstats package for creating cellular automata. Has a quick way of generating them (as a matrix) based on the Wolfram rule, plotting them, and generating an animation. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 AM
I guess you could do a Solow model of death rate vs fertility:
November 22, 2024 at 11:46 AM