I’ve started a new section of this blog where I’ll share tips for doing data-driven science.

Here are some tricks for scraping the web with R and Python.

Here’s the software and packages that I use the most for my research.

I build an app that lets you explore my econospeak data.

Here’s a tale about empirical work that demonstrates a simple rule: the deeper you go, the harder it gets.

Here are 10 tips for making charts that pop.

I take a break from political economy and talk computer science.

Here are ten tips for making your research open to fellow scientists.

I show you my code for making pretty charts in ggplot.

Welcome to the first post of ‘Economics from the Top Down’. This will be a blog about new ideas in economics and the social sciences. I use the word ‘economics’ in a liberal sense. Few trained economists will recognize what I do as ‘economics’. Perhaps a better word would be ‘political economy’. Or even better, just ‘social science’. But before diving into the content of this blog, I should introduce myself. My name is Blair Fix.