Below is a collection of resources that I frequently share with others, and reference in my day-to-day professional life. The resources fit into two main categories: (1) Data & R Resources, and (2) Economics Profession Resources. I hope these resources help you build, write, and create things.
Outside of academic research, I write a blog – The Little Dataset – which explores a wide range of questions with data and economics. As part of that project, I provide all data and code for my blog projects on this page.
The fantastic Data is Plural newsletter: structured archive & sign-up
Resources from FlowingData: newsletter & data source list & guide to finding data
How to FOIA: twitter thread by Ashvin Gandhi
Data science for economists course materials by Grant McDermott
Computational Thinking for Social Scientists by Jae Yeon Kim
Community posts on BlueSky: #rstats
R-Ladies Community: WeAreRLadies on BlueSky & find an R-Ladies meetup here
Data Visualization: A practical introduction (by Kieran Healy)
Here are R scripts and notebooks used to generate my blog projects
A Comprehensive list of R color palettes (by Emil Hvitfeldt)
Regenbogen: color palettes explorer (by Jan Simson)
Grafify for color blind-friendly palettes
Monochrome color palettes (by Nicola Rennie)
Blog post on choosing colors (by Lisa Charlotte Rost)
FlowingData website & newsletters
The Pudding essays & their How To Make Dope [Stuff] on The Internet series
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (thread with many related links here)
renv package resources: main page, combining renv and RSPM by Grant McDermott, renv slides by Kevin Ushey
Simon Heß's CV template (preview)
Steven Miller’s CV template (preview)
Nick Strayer's datadrivenvc package
“So you’ve made a regression model” flowchart from Nick Huntington-Klein
“Econometrics Sandbox” series from Florence Kondylis and John Loeser
Section 6.3 (p.126-133) of Doing Economics (2012 blog post version here)
Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer (2017)'s JEL article on refereeing
AEA's list of online economics seminars
Here is a page of resources I made for undergraduate thesis writers
A comprehensive community guide for research assistants (RAs) in economics
"The Introduction Formula" by Keith Head
"The Ten Most Important Rules of Writing Your Job Market Paper" by Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz
"How to Write Applied Papers in Economics" by Marc Bellemare
"we need to talk MORE..." by Claudia Sahm
Making a simple academic website: write-up by Kevin Wilson
Email tips: "how to send and reply to email" article by Matt Might
File naming: "How to Name Files, Like a Normie" slides by Jenny Bryan
The Ombuds Resource for AEA Members (FAQ here)
Switching from Mendeley to Zotero: twitter thread by Remy Levin
I wrote a blog post on the market here (twitter thread version is here)
Chase Eck, Kelli Marquardt, and Dana Shaat’s Guide on Mentally Preparing for the Job Market [+ their guide to JM guides here]
Advice on non-academic cover letters here
AEA webinar on the job market here (from 2021; covers applying, interviews, negotiating, and more)
Incredible resources from Natalia Emanuel: "Job Market Thoughts" & "Job Market Objective Functions"
Negotiation advice: memo/advice from Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz & lecture on “How to Negotiate Your Job Offer” by Deepak Malhotra