Articles by Econometrics and Free Software

Synthetic micro-datasets: a promising middle ground between data privacy and data analysis

February 22, 2020 | Econometrics and Free Software

Intro: the need for microdata, and the risk of disclosure Survey and administrative data are essential for scientific research, however accessing such datasets can be very tricky, or even impossible. In my previous job I was responsible for getting access to such “scientific micro-datasets” from institutions like Eurostat. In general, ... [Read more...]

Synthetic micro-datasets: a promising middle ground between data privacy and data analysis

February 22, 2020 | Econometrics and Free Software

Intro: the need for microdata, and the risk of disclosure Survey and administrative data are essential for scientific research, however accessing such datasets can be very tricky, or even impossible. In my previous job I was responsible for getting access to such “scientific micro-datasets” from institutions like Eurostat. In general, ...
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Cluster multiple time series using K-means

October 12, 2019 | Econometrics and Free Software

I have been recently confronted to the issue of finding similarities among time-series and though about using k-means to cluster them. To illustrate the method, I’ll be using data from the Penn World Tables, readily available in R (inside the {pwt9} package):
library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)
library(pwt9)
library(brotools)
First, of all, let’s only ... [Read more...]

{disk.frame} is epic

September 2, 2019 | Econometrics and Free Software

Note: When I started writing this blog post, I encountered a bug and filed a bug report that I encourage you to read. The responsiveness of the developer was exemplary. Not only did Zhuo solve the issue in record time, he provided ample code snippets to illustrate the solutions. Hats ...
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