Currently, I am teaching a new course Empirical Economics with R. The RTutor problem set for the chapter on Difference-in-Difference estimation uses the great package lfe. I consider it an essential package to convince Stata users (still most empirical... [Read more...]

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Over the past few months, I have been working on testing the Rcpp packages using RcppDeepState in the cluster. When we fuzz test each Rcpp function-specific testharness I have found issues in 137 packages. The List of packages that we found issues in ... [Read more...]

Week 13 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 13 (2020) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. [Read more...]

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Introduction I have a macabre fascination with tracking the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. I suspect there are two reasons for this. One, by delving into the numbers I imagine I have some control over this thing. Second, it feels like lighting a cand... [Read more...]

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Home-court advantage in the NBA For obvious reasons, 2020 has not been the best of years, and alongside the terrible societal and economical turmoil created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the sports and entertainment industry has also undergone some dramatic transformations. Of all major sports leagues, the NBA was able to adapt ... [Read more...]

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It looks like R is getting an official pipe operator (ref). R doesn’t work under an RFC process, so we hear about these things and they are discussed on the R-devel mailing list. I’ve written on this topic before (ref), and I have taped some new comments. (link) ... [Read more...]

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A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll ... [Read more...]

A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also,... [Read more...]

A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll ... [Read more...]

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The other day while looking for something else altogether, I stumbled across naval-history.net, a website aiming to preserve historical naval documents and make them more available. I’m not sure if it’s still being actively worked on; the creator and k... [Read more...]