- Resources by Jennifer Doleac
- Resources by Ryan Edwards
- Tips 4 Economists by Masayuki Kudamatsu
- Resources for PhD Students by Shanjun Li
- xSub: A New Portal for Cross-National Data on Sub-National Violence
- The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) (this is a nice dashboard)
- Electoral Contention and Violence
- RTV Dataset on Right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe
- AfroGrid: "...: an integrated, disaggregated 0.5 degree grid-month data on conflict, environmental stress, and socioeconomic features in Africa, ..."
- World Historical Battles Database
- RiceAtlas, a spatial database of global rice calendars and production
- Radiant Earth Foundation
- World Population Density (interaction mapping)
- Digital Soil map for Nepal
- 3-Hourly Assimilation Aerosol Optical Depth Analysis
- PMGSY Rural Connectivity Datasets (Twitter thread here)
- The Global Resources Dataset: "The Global Resources Dataset (GRD) is the world's largest time-varying, spatial natural resources dataset. The current version of the GRD covers 197 resources and in 116 countries. All 77,000 observations have latitude and longitude coordinates, and most observations contain resource output information as well as price/value details from multiple sources."
- Global Oil and Gas Features
- A Global Dataset on Education Quality
- African education reserach database by ESSA
- Open data sources compilation for Mexico by edublancas
- International migration flows between each pair of countries (196x196 matrix)
- Panel data tracking 1000s of adlescent girls over 10 years (also see this tweet)
- Data on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) (downloadable at https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/idp_locations_data.zip)
- The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG): "The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Platform for India (SHRUG) is a geographic platform that facilitates data sharing between researchers working on India. It is an open access repository currently comprising dozens of datasets covering India’s 500,000 villages and 8000 towns using a set of a common geographic identifiers that span 25 years."
- Refugee Resettlement Data 1975-2018: "This website is the result of a collaboration between the Universities of Göttingen, Heidelberg and Western Australia. It has been created as a platform to share digitised individual refugee data (1975-2008) obtained from publicly held records as originally recorded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. A second geo-coded version is also available on this site that covers the 1975-2018 period. "
- Indian National Family Health Survey (2019-2020) in a single CSV file
- Statistics of the Russian Empire: Digitized Data Tables
- Database for Development Economics Research by Development Economics Lab @Kyoto University
- 12 Transfer of Power volumes (in one Twitter thread)
- The Stanford Open Policing Project
- Slave Trade Database
- Liquor and Cannabis Daily Sales in Washington
- Sex ratios and missing girls in 19c Europe
- Firm-level Climate Change Exposure
- Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey
- Brazilian Municipal Identifiers (and other cool Brazilian data) by Peter Johannessen
- ExperimentData
- Food flows between counties in the United States from 2007 to 2017
- Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset: "We introduce the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset, which records information on 1,426 organizations that participated in events of maximalist violent and nonviolent contention in Africa from 1990 to 2015."
- Some big-ish AgEcon data (Twitter threads)
- TheDiscreteChoiceDataBank
- NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database
- Yale Climate Opinion Maps
- Comparative Panel File: Harmonizing Comparative Lifecourse Data
- Datasets by Brett Hollenbeck: Texas hotel industry tax receipts data (2000-2015), Texas hotel online reviews full text data, Washington cannabis industry data, Amazon fake reviews data
- CMS Hospital Cost Report (HCRIS) Data 1996-2021
- Indeed Hiring Lab Data Repository: "This GitHub repo is intended to serve as a space to host various regularly-updated data series to help economists, journalists, and other interested parties better understand the labor market conditions in their countries."
- RAND State Firearm Law Database
- Open Data at the New York Philharmonic
- Sentencing Commision Datasets by khwilson
- Marriage & Divorce Data for 1867-2010
- Federal Sentencing Statistics by geography
- Massachusetts Bay Transporation Authority Gated Station Entries
- Appointment wait time data for primary & specialty care in veterans health administration facilities vs. community medical centers
- INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ) SENSOR DASHBOARD
- NIGHTINGALE OPEN SCIENCE: "Our secure, open data hub brings together health systems and research communities from across the world, enabling researchers to push the boundaries of medical science."
- Submarine Cable Map
- The American Presidency Project: "Non-profit and non-partisan, the APP is the source of presidential documents on the internet. We are hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara."
- Data visualization guide by Google
- An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data
- Data Visualization Catalog in PolicyViz
- Perceptual Edge (I like the page "Examples" where you can find examples of bad figures and explanations of how to make them look better)
- Data to Viz
- Eager Eyes
- Information is Beautiful
- Module 11: Intro to Machine Learning and Data Visualization in edX "Data Analysis for Social Scientists"
- Visualizations That Really Work by Harvard Business Review
- ColorBrewer
- AEA's favorite data visualizations in 2016
- Data visualization course by Andrew Heiss
- Geospatial Data Visualization Tool by kepler.gl
- Remove to Improve (the data-ink ratio)
- Data visualization by The Economist ("Mistakes, we've drawn a few" is one of my favorites)
- 10 ways to use fewer colors in your data visualizations: (Lisa Charlotte Muth's blog posts here are all cool!)
- Science visualization trends of 2021
- Free visuals for PowerPoint (or whatever) slides
- The R Graph Gallery
- ggplot2 extensions - gallery
- Tutorials in Flowing Data
- Some econ figures with ggplot2 by Andrew Heiss
- ggplot2 Cheat Sheet
- Data Visualization by Andrew Heiss (PMAP 8921 at Georgia State University): "Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data"
- ggplot Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and Secrets for Beautiful Plots in R by Cédric Scherer
- Dataviz Inspiration
- Graphical Data Analysis with R
- Cookbook for R: Graphs
- ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
- Data Visualization with R
- Data visualisation chapter in "R for Data Science"
- Interactive web-based data visualization with R, plotly, and shiny
- Sports Data Analysis and Visualization: Code, data and visuals for storytellers
Color Palettes in ggplot2 (available color pallets are found here and most of the color palettes are available through paletteer)
- efg’s R Notes: RColorBrewer Package
- jcolor
- viridis ("Use the color scales in this package to make plots that are pretty, better represent your data, easier to read by those with colorblindness, and print well in grey scale.")
- wesanderson
- ochRe
- ghibli: So cute!!
- xkcd: "This package tries to give a satisfactory answer to the question How can we make xkcd style graphs in R?."
- magick: Advanced Graphics and Image-Processing in R
- Superheat: "The superheat package was developed to produce customizable and extendable heatmaps which act as a tool for the visual exploration of complex datasets."
- circlize for circular visualization
- Stata Visual Overview
- Stata Visual Library (with a focus on impact evaluation) by World Bank
- BLINDSCHEMES: Stata module to provide graph schemes sensitive to color vision deficiency
- colorscatter: "Stata code to draw scatterplots with varying marker colors."
- Stata color schemes (Twitter thread)
- How to create your own Stata graph schemes
- The Python Graph Gallery (matplotlib and seaborn)
- Graph gallery by matplotlib
- matplotlib-gallery by rasbt
- Matplotlib Style Gallery
- Plots for Intro Micro with matplotlib
- Example gallery of seaborn
- Hayao Miyazaki Picks His 50 Favorite Children’s Books
- International Movie List for Kids by Laura Schechter
- Common myths about development and development economics (Twitter thread)
- Teaching Development Economics: "This website is a collection of teaching material on Development Economics, written by members of ThReD."
- Development Meets Organizational Economics
- How to Give an Applied Micro Talk by Jesse Shapiro
- Public Speaking for Academic Economists by Rachael Meager
- A Guide for European Job Market Candidates by EEA
- Econ PhDs and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Job Market by Marc Bellemare
- It may be good to know some differences between econ and ag econ departments:
- Ag and Applied Econ PhDs on the Economics Job Market by Marc Bellemare
- Guide to the European Job Market - David Schindler
- Questions at first round interviews by Natalia Emanuel: (she also has a nice thread about what to expect for first round interviews here)
- Twitter thread by Sarah Jacobson on a panel on the job market at AEASMPC
- Scarlet Chen's blogs: My Journey from Econ PhD to Tech and Tech Industry Jobs for Econ PhDs
- A blog about non-academic careers for PhD economists by Ana Moura
- Informational discussions @ EconJobMarket
- Panel on Non-Academic Development Economics Research Jobs
- What I learned from my job market experience by Yoko Okuyama
- Job Market Resources by Johannes Pfeifer
- Economics Job Market Resources by Jason Blevins
- A GUIDE AND ADVICE FOR ECONOMISTS ON THE U.S. JUNIOR ACADEMIC JOB MARKET 2018-2019 Edition
- Writing advice for job market candidates by Claudia Sahm
- For the ambitious, prospective PhD student: A Guide
- Pre-Grad School Advice for Agricultural and Applied Economics by Marc Bellemare
- Advice for prospective Ph.D. students by Cyrus Samii
- Advice on the Publishing Process by Imran Rasul
- What is your most important advice for a new PhD student? (Twitter thread)
- Collection for new PhD students by Claes Bäckman
- How to survive your first year of graduate school in economics by Matthew Pearson
- Stress management for PhD students
- "Best research-related advice I've recieved" by John Holbein (Twitter thread)
- Reflections on Grad School in Economics by Nick Hagerty
- The Tenure Process at Research Universities by Petra Todd
- “What It Takes to Get Tenure” – Perceptions and Experiences of AAEA Members
- How to generate ideas by Matt Lowe
- Academic career advice compiled by James Freedman
- Advice for Phd Students in Economics by Chris Roth and David Schindler
- Advice for Academic Research by Ricardo Dahis
- Tips for meeting seminar speakers (Twitter thread by Josh Dean)
- How to write an economics paper
- How to survive in the publishing game? Tips for young economists
- CALTECH RULES FOR WRITING PAPERS: HOW TO STRUCTURE YOUR PAPER AND WRITE AN INTRODUCTION
- Ph.D. Thesis Research: Where do I Start?
- Practical tips for writing and publishing applied economics papers by Timothy Beatty and Jay Shimshack
- Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students by John Cochrane
- Twitter thread by Jeffrey Brown
- How to construct a Nature summary paragraph
- Publish, Don't Perish: Submitting Research Articles to Refereed Journals
- A Better Lit Review Workflow by Shyam Raman
- Journals with short paper options where economists might publish
- Writing Tips for Economics Research Papers – 2021-2022 Edition
- Journal Turnaround Times: "This app was built using data on the distribution of turnaround times for different journals in economics and finance (See "Data Sources" for more details). The Conditional Distributions tab allows you to calculate the likelihood of receiving a decision conditional on the amount of time you've waited."
- EGAP Writing 1: Academic Essays_2022 Edition (Kyoto University)
- General Equilibrium
- CREPE Lecture Series: Mini course on child development and human capital production functions
- MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR MACROECONOMICS
- Applied Microeconomics C (Theoretical IO) by Susumu Sato
- Real-world economics by AEA
- AEA's Mentoring Reading Materials
- Applied Econometrics: Mostly Harmless Big Data
- Econ papers about witches & witch trials (Twitter thread)
- List of crime papers by Jennifer Doleac
- A Beginner's Guide to #EconTwitter
- SQ3R method
- Global Gender History
- Consulting and Freelancing in Academia by Nick Huntington-Klein
- Useful computational resources by Maximilian Kasy
- 20 Cheat Sheets: Python, ML, Data Science, R, and More
- IPA's Best Practices for Data and Code Management
- Coding for Economists by Ljubica Ristovska
- Data for Development Impact by World Bank DIME Analytics
- Checklist for Result Tables
- Programming for Economists
- Data science for economists
- 50+ Free Data Science Books
- RA wiki in Gentzkow & Shapiro economics research lab
- Onborad wiki by Aaditya Dar
- renamefrom and encodefrom: ...
- ritest: Randomization inference in stata
- ietoolkit by World Bank
- help undocumented
- wyoung for multiple hypothesis testing
- binsreg for binscatter
- coeflegend (see this tweet)
- fre and fsum
- group_lines for time series plots with many groups (see this tweet)
- wbopendata: Stata module to access World Bank databases
- NEARSTAT: Stata module to calculate distance-based variables and export distance matrix to text file
- REGSAVE: Stata module to save regression results to a Stata-formatted dataset
- set cformat
- joyplot
- clipgeo
- Importing Twitter data into Stata
- Is the file drawer too large? Standard Errors in Stata Strike Back
- How to write LaTeX table code within Stata (Twitter thread)
- Packages for generating LaTeX output from Stata code (and a cool Stata Table Gallery here!)
- Nice and fast tables in Stata?
- Find out what other users are downloading on the SSC archive
- A bunch of Stata tips for handling large datasets by Jan Kabátek
- Stata style guide by Sean Higgins
- Regular expressions (regex) in Stata
- The Stata Frames Guide: Medium articles by Asjad Naqvi are all great for Stata users
- Learn how to easily read PDF data straight in Stata using tabula from Python
- How To Set Up And Run A Virtual Machine On Amazon Web Services
- Translating Stata to R
- To R from Stata: An Introduction
- Introduction to R for advanced Stata users by World Bank DIME Analytics
- Advanced R
- R packages
- R for Data Science
- ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
- Computational Thinking for Social Scientists
- crosswalkr: Rename and Encode Data Frames Using External Crosswalk Files
- panelView: visualizing panel data with dichotomous treatments
- distances: "The distances package provides tools for constructing, manipulating and using distance metrics in R."
- summarytools: "summarytools provides a coherent set of functions centered on data exploration and simple reporting."
- democracyData for democracy indices
- binsreg: Binscatter Estimation and Inference
- tableone: "The tableone package is an R package that eases the construction of "Table 1", i.e., patient baseline characteristics table commonly found in biomedical research papers."
- multiwayvcov: "Exports two functions implementing multi-way clustering using the method suggested by Cameron, Gelbach, & Miller (2011) and cluster (or block) bootstrapping for estimating variance-covariance matrices"
- estatapi: R Interface to e-Stat API: "Provides an interface to e-Stat API, the one-stop service for official statistics of the Japanese government."
- spmoran: Moran Eigenvector-Based Scalable Spatial Additive Mixed Modeling (used in spatial econometrics?)
- hdm: High-Dimensional Metrics: "Implementation of selected high-dimensional statistical and econometric methods for estimation and inference."
- texreg: "Converts coefficients, standard errors, significance stars, and goodness-of-fit statistics of statistical models into LaTeX tables or HTML tables/MS Word documents or to nicely formatted screen output for the R console for easy model comparison"
- tidygraph: "R tidygraph network graph"
- dqrng: "Fast Pseudo Random Number Generators for R"
- Rtweet: Twitter API in R, nice introduction is here
- huxreg: function in a package
huxregto make a table of regressions - collapse: "
collapseis a C/C++ based package for data transformation and statistical computing in R." Grant McDermott explains how you can achieve a major speedup by usingcollapsehere. - genderBR: "genderBR predicts gender from Brazilian first names using data from the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica’s 2010 Census."
- stargazer cheatsheet
- robust SEs on a ggplot2 (with estimatr)
- Word embeddings: example by Pablo Barbera
- Modern R with the tidyverse
- Using R — Working with Geospatial Data (and ggplot2)
- R Programming for Data Science
- 10+2 Data Science Methods that Every Data Scientist Should Know in 2016
- R packages for biological data
- R Markdown: The Definitive Guide
- Handling missing values with R
- Some useful R tips (Twitter thread)
- Econometrics in R's tidyverse
- Chapter 20: Integrating with C++ using Rcpp and RcppEigen by Kohei Kawaguchi
- Create Awesome LaTeX Table with knitr::kable and kableExtra
- Rcpp for everyone
- Intro to Network Analysis in R
- Web scraping in R
- Downloading municipality-level data from eStats: "This repository includes a sample R script to download municipality-level data from e-Stat: Portal Site of Official Statitics of Japan. You should first register at https://www.e-stat.go.jp/api/ to get your appId."
- Style Guide for Python
- econtools for econometrics and data manipulation
- Python Data Science Handbook
- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
- Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (pdf)
- A list of numpy resources by Navigating ML
- The Definitive Guide to Python import Statements by Chris Yeh: Detailed instructions of how to use
importwhen you make a module (.pyfile) or a package - geospatial package: "A Python package for installing commonly used packages for geospatial analysis and data visualization with only one command"
- simpledmx package: "simpledmx is a minimalistic Python package experience with SDMX that fetches all data from sources defined by the user."
- Parallel Computing and Scientific Machine Learning: The lecture note of Optimizing Serial Code is a must-read!
- Julia for Economists 2022 by Cameron Pfiffer
- ScPo-CompEcon CoursePack
- TeXample.net
- Tips + Tricks with Beamer for Economists (source code here)
- Making Stata tables smaller (fit on slide) in Beamer
- Beamer poster template by tyleransom
- Equation to LaTeX
- How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
- How to make econ figures with Tikz (Twitter thread)
- Calendar library examples with Tikz
- How to use Overleaf + Git to manage your TeX file
- How to quickly convert Powerpoint slides to Beamer (and indent the code nicely too)
- Metrolopis Beamer Theme: popular Beamer theme (?)
- Cool LaTeX article and Beamer templates by Kyle F Butts
- 7 Command-Line Tools for Data Science
- Join, split, and compress PDF files with pdftools
- pdfgrep: "a commandline utility to search text in PDF files"
- Earth Lab
- Causal Inference with Spatial Data: ArcGIS 10 for Economics Research by Masayuki Kudamatsu
- R as GIS for Economists by Taro Mieno
- Geospatial Data Repository by Leah Bevis
- Caption this, with TensorFlow: How to build and train an image caption generator using a TensorFlow notebook.
- Computational Linear Algebra for Coders
- AI Prism
- Statistical Learning (lecture @ Stanford)
- Navigating ML
- Machine Learning Crash Course by Google
- CS 294: Deep Reinforcement Learning (@ UC Berkeley)
- Machine learning from scratch
- AI in Society: 2. Algorithmic Fairness
- EconML: A Python Package for ML-Based Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Estimation
- Josh Tobin - Troubleshooting Deep Neural Networks
- Machine Learning examples by Development Seed
- Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering by Google
- List of Data Science/Big Data Resources by chaconnewu: "This list contains free learning resources for data science and big data related concepts, techniques, and applications. "
- List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages
- Open Source Society University: "The OSSU curriculum is a complete education in computer science using online materials."
- The fastai book
- Machine Learning and NLP: Advances and Applications
- Handbook of Graphs and Networks in People Analytics
- Sentiment analysis algorithms and applications: A survey
- AFINN: "AFINN sentiment analysis in Python: Wordlist-based approach for sentiment analysis."
- SentiWordNet
- Hedonometeer: Happiness measure of words (with dictionaries for some of non-English languages)
- SenticNet
- Google Cloud Natural Language: Analyzing Sentiment
- Collection by John Holbein for courses on experimental design, especially in politics
- CS267 -- Graph Algorithms @ Stanford
- Econ 2148: Advances in causality and foundations of machine learning (@ Harvard)
- Econ 1126: Applied Econometrics (@ Harvard)
- Ec 2450B: Public Economics and Fiscal Policy II (@ Harvard)
- ECON 60650 : DESIGNING & ANALYZING EXPERIMENTS (@ Notre Dame)
- MS&E234, Data Privacy and Ethics (@ Stanford)
- (Graduate) Industrial Organization I and II (@ U Tokyo)
- Topics in Econometrics: Advances in Causality and Foundations of Machine Learning (@ Harvard)
- EC607 @ The University of Oregon: "Data science for economists" by Grant McDermott
- CS W182 @ UC Berkeley: "Designing, Visualizing and Understanding Deep Neural Networks"
- Grad-IO by Chris Conlon: "This is meant to be a first PhD course in Empirical Industrial Organization. It is meant for second year PhD students."
- Applied Empirical Methods @ Yale (by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham)
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (@ MIT)
- STAT447: Data Science Programming Methods (@ U Illinois)
- Text as Data by Arthur Spirling
- Econ 842: Development Seminar II (@ CUNY)
- ECON9912C: Dynamic Games in Environmental Economics (@ U Oslo)
- CS7792 - Counterfactual Machine Learning @ Cornell
- Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath
- The Geography of Transport Systems
- ECON 2070: A Computer Science Toolbox for Modern Economic Theory (@ Harvard)
- Grad IO by Chris Conlon
- CS 224: Advanced Algorithms
- An Introduction to Development Economics With a Focus on Data - (University of Chicago - ECON 15510 - Spring 2021)
- Foundations of Machine Learning
- ECON 747 - The Macroeconomics of Imperfect Capital Markets
- Evidence-Informed & Data-Driven Public Policy
- Introduction to Economic Growth by Alexander Yarkin
- DS-GA 1008: Deep learning
- Program Evaluation for Public Service
- OpenGeoHub Summer School 2023
- The Sankofa Game: "A game about the stories, lives, and cultures of the Akan people in coastal Ghana during the nineteenth century."
- Quiver: The Programmer's Notebook
- LINNÉ LENS - Scannable AI encyclopedia
- Draftable to compare documents
- Table Tool: "A simple CSV editor for OS X"
- Layout Parser: A unified toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis
- Semantic Scale Network: "The Semantic Scale Network helps researchers and reviewers in psychological science to detect semantically related scales."
- Elemental haiku
- The Periodic Table for Spatial Analysis
- Data to Art: "Data to Art is a project made to promote art made from Data."
- Matrix Multiplication
- OLS Explained Visually
- Interactive index to the map set for Japan 1:50,000 (Chikeizu)
- Free textbooks @ openstax
- Vyking Ship for international shopping
- Mathcha: "Online mathematics editor: a fast way to write and share mathematics"
- An ka taa: Start learning Bambara or Dioula from scratch
- Teaching and Learning Toolkit: An accessible summary of education evidence
- Studies about how online teaching reduces learning
- FDR Pre-Doctoral Training Curriculum: "This 10-week training program is designed to prepare incoming pre-doctoral research fellows at the Princeton Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) lab with the skills needed to support faculty research projects within ESOC, SPIA, and associated departments."
- Structural Behavioral Economics with Python and Julia
- Ariel Rubinstein's Atlas of Cafes where one can think
- How to read a lot of books by David Evans
- The Age of Borders
- Intra-African migration
- 1880 Map of Telegraph Cable Routes
- Global Fishing Watch
- The Map of Mathematics
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- When you share link to a PDF file on Dropbox, ...
- Suits for Job Market Candidates (Twitter thread)
- 7 Apps To Make Summer Travel Easier
- 7 ways to make your Google Scholar Profile better
- Mount Your Google Drive on Linux with google-drive-ocamlfuse
- Good sushi places in Tokyo by Kensuke Teshima
- Academic Phrasebank @ Manchester
- 12 Ways to Get Smarter in One Infographic
- Sci-Hub-Fy: "Chrome extension that passes URLs to Sci-Hub, allowing free access to scientific articles."
- Google Books Ngram Viewer
- How to host HTML and PDF files on GitHub
- EyeQue VisionCheck
- Quantum Information Science
- Malaria's lifecycle
- Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway
- Common Cancer Myths and Misconceptions
- Tax policy for developing countries by IMF
- Established remote companies: " curated list of established remote/distributed/virtual tech companies. The criteria for inclusion are intentionally vague, but the general idea is to include only established tech companies for which a significant portion of the workforce works remotely. "
- Brave Browser