Probablemente sientes que estamos inundados con información sobre la evolución de la pandemia de COVID-19. Sin embargo, nada mejor que manejar los datos uno mismo y analizarlos desde distintos puntos de vista. Creo que siempre hay alguien que observará algo en los datos que se nos ha escapado a millones de observadores y creo que cualquier aporte en esta emergencia mundial es valioso.

Now that I’m on the tenure track, I’ve been looking for a way to keep track of my different research projects so I can get them all finished and published. Matt Lebo’s “Managing Your Research Pipeline” presents a neat way of quantifying and tracking the progress of your research, and I recently adopted it for my own stuff. I even made a fancy R Markdown + flexdashboard dashboard to show the status of the pipeline interactively.

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

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

Leaflet es una biblioteca de Javascript para hacer mapas y existe un paquete homónimo para que permite usar todo el potencial de leaflet en nuestros mapas y hacerlos interactivos y aptos para móviles. Para crear un mapa en blanco se usa la función leaflet. La función addTiles() agrega “tiles” de OpenStreetMap.

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.

RStudio es el entorno de desarrollo para R más popular hoy en día. Su instalación en Manjaro (y otras distribuciones basadas en Arch Linux) es muy sencilla pero requiere usar el repositorio mantenidos por los usuarios, conocido como Arch User Repository (AUR). Usualmente, se usaba yaourt para instalar paquetes del AUR pero dado que este fue descontinuado, tendremos que instalar yay , uno de sus sustitutos.

(See this notebook on GitHub) A year ago, I wrote about how to use R to solve a typical microeconomics problem: finding the optimal price and quantity of some product given its demand and cost. Doing this involves setting the first derivatives of two functions equal to each other and using algebra to find where they cross.

(See this notebook on GitHub) Taking a sample from two groups from a population and seeing if there’s a significant or substantial difference between them is a standard task in statistics.

I am so beyond thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University in Fall 2019 as an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy. I’ll be teaching classes in statistics/data science, economics, and nonprofit management in beautiful downtown Atlanta, and we’ll be moving back to the South. I am so so excited about this!