On this page I have added a quite uncurated collection of links and resources that I have picked up during my time in academia. They serve as a sort of library for me, and I hope someone else will find it useful.

CODE

Python

GIS with python

Webscraping with Python

Packaging

ML

POSTGIS

Data Visualization

Maps

STATA

Markdown

  • Markdown Guide
  • https://solomon.io/better-markdown-visual-studio-code/

Text analysis

OCR

R

LaTeX

Personal webpage

DATA

Political

Climate/weather

Events

Macro data

Maps

Population

  • Impressive database that can give 100x100m estimations for the whole world using different methods. Good, transparent and free! https://www.worldpop.org

Misc

ECONOMETRICS

General

Instrumental variable

Woolridge 10 things you need to know:

  1. Law of Iterated Expectations, Law of total variance.
  2. Linearity of expectations, variance of a sum.
  3. Jensen’s inequality, Chebyshev’s inequality.
  4. Linear projections and its properties.
  5. Weak law of large numbers, Central Limit Theorem.
  6. Slustky’s theorem, Continious convergence theorem, asymptotic equivalence lemma.
  7. Big Op, Little Op and the algebra of them.
  8. Delta Method.
  9. Frisch-Waugh partialling out.
  10. For PD matrices \(A\) and \(B\), \(A-B\) is PSD iff \(B^{-1}-A^{-1}\) is PSD.

Panel data and DID

Regresson discountinuity

Syntetic control

Specification curve

PRESENTATIONS

Feedback, mindfigures

  • Giving a presentation is like archery with only one arrow - you only get one shot, ONLY focus on the things that will make you hit the goal.
  • Do not “warm up” in front of the crowd - IN MEDIAS RES!
  • ALWAYS place your research questions front and center
  • Remember you are there to present - to convey some interesting fact about the world (like a purple truck), not to have a Socratic dialogue about the world.
  • Use Backwards induction
  • Think carefully about what you’d like two participants in the audience would say to a non-participating colleagues at lunch the day after.
  • It is not about showing off! So do not even try.
  • Trim away irrelevant and/or redundant details
  • On academic talks http://bactra.org/weblog/900.html
  • How to give an applied micro talk https://www.brown.edu/Research/Shapiro/pdfs/applied_micro_slides.pdf

DOING RESEARCH

All encompassing

Starting a project

  • Write a fake abstract

Literatrue review

Writing

GENERAL (uncategorized)

Job market

Genetics in social science

Human origins

Economic history

Cultural evolution

Blogs

Great blog posts

Personal web-page inspiration

Nice data visualisations