Weekly Collection of Interesting Things (4/24/2023)

A weekly attempt to collate interesting ('Metrics + Economics + Finance) things I've found

A collection of interesting links, content, and papers I have found over the past week (mainly through Twitter, but other places as well):

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Links

• The amazing Jenny Bryan has some wonderful slides on how to name your files:

  

• Julian Reif has an amazing set of resources on how to construct a credible and compelling paper replication package (in Stata!). Would love for a kind and generous soul to do the same in R. He also has a wonderful Stata coding guide

  

• Call for mentors in economics!

  

• Kieran Healy of Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction (and “Fuck Nuance”) fame will be doing a three-day livestream lecture on designing data visualization on April 27: https://codehorizons.com/Seminars/data-visualization-using-r/

  

  
  

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Papers I’m Reading

I’m stuck doing a lot of referee reports this week :(

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Code

• Jeff Gortmaker and Chris Conlon have absolutely amazing code for doing BLP and MicroBLP effectively in Python here: https://github.com/jeffgortmaker/pyblp Make sure to check out the corresponding papers (Conlon and Gortmaker 2020, 2023)