Finding Data

• The fantastic Data is Plural newsletter: structured archive & sign-up

• J-PAL's Administrative Data Sets Catalog

• Economic Articles with Data (by Sebastian Kranz)

• Resources from FlowingData: newsletter & data source list & guide to finding data

• 538’s data & code

• The Pudding’s data & code

• #TidyTuesday datasets

• ML datasets listing (by Sebastian Raschka)

Data visualization inspiration

• FlowingData website & newsletters

• The Pudding essays & their How To Make Dope [Stuff] on The Internet series

• #TidyTuesday community creations

• W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (thread with many related links here)

• Dear Data

General R Resources

• R for Data Science & R4DS community

• STAT 545 by Jenny Bryan

• Data science for economists course materials by Grant McDermott

• Code examples in R for Program Evaluation by Andrew Heiss

• Computational Thinking for Social Scientists by Jae Yeon Kim

• The Library of Statistical Techniques (LOST)

R Community Resources

• RStudio Community (essentially, StackOverflow but all R)

• R-Ladies Community: content via @WeAreRLadies & find an R-Ladies meetup here

• Content via #rstats on Twitter

R for Data Visualization

• Data Visualization: A practical introduction (with lots of ggplot2 code!) by Kieran Healy

• A Comprehensive list of R color palettes from Emil Hvitfeldt

  • Related blog post on choosing colors by Lisa Charlotte Rost

• Glamour of Graphics by Will Chase

• Designing ggplots by Malcolm Barrett

• Graphics in R with ggplot2 by Antoine Soetewey

Here are R scripts and notebooks used to generate my blog projects

Using R for Academic Projects

• R Markdown Templates from Steven Miller

• Thread on organizing projects with R by Angela Li

• Dissertating with R by Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

• renv package resources: main page, combining renv and RSPM by Grant McDermott, renv slides by Kevin Ushey

Xaringan (R package) for slides

• Why xaringan / remark.js for HTML5 Presentations? from creator Yihui Xie

• Meet xaringan from Alison Hill

• Theme generator & xaringanExtra

• Why leave beamer? Some thoughts from Ross + Andrew

Making a website with blogdown (R package)

• Official blogdown book

• Up and Running with Blogdown by Alison Hill

• Let Me Upgrade You by me

Making a CV with R

• The vitae R package

• datadrivenvc package by Nick Strayer

• Steven Miller’s CV template

Predictive Modeling with Tidymodels (R package)

• The fantastic Tidymodels website

• For binary classification: (1) a “getting started” case study, (2) Julia classifies penguins, (3) Julia predicts water availability

Causal inference concepts

• Causal inference animations from Nick Huntington-Klein

• “So you’ve made a regression model” flowchart from Nick Huntington-Klein

• “Econometrics Sandbox” series from Florence Kondylis and John Loeser

Teaching materials on causal inference/metrics

• Ed Rubin’s “Econometrics III” notes

• Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham’s “Applied Empirical Methods” notes

• Causal Inference: The Mixtape

• Kline + Walters AEA notes

Visualizations for empirical research

• Specification charts by Hans Henrik Sievertsen

• Staggered diff-in-diff visualizations by Andrew Baker

Staggered differences-in-differences

• Using the did Package for implementing Callaway and Sant’Anna (2020) 

• Using fixest for implementing Abraham and Sun (2020)

• Seminar video on Baker, Larker, and Wang (2021)

  • code behind BLW (2021) paper

Reviewing for journals

• Section 6.3 (p.126-133) of Doing Economics (2012 blog post version here)

• Berk, Harvey, and Hirshleifer (2017)'s JEL article on refereeing

Conferences, grants, seminars

• Econ conferences list by Anne Burton and Barton Willage

• Small grants list by Anne Byrne

• Organizing panels for conferences: twitter thread by Aaron Sojourner 

• Online economics seminars: AEA list + Twitter replies + Bluesky replies

Research Assistant jobs

• A comprehensive community guide for research assistants (RAs) in economics

• Pre-doc advice and resources from Zahra Thabet

Using version control

• Git: A Guide for Economists from Frank Pinter

• Git(Hub) + RStudio from Grant McDermott

Advice on writing papers

• "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

Misc. resources

• How to FOIA: twitter thread by Ashvin Gandhi

• Making a simple academic website: write-up by Kevin Wilson

• Switching from Mendeley to Zotero: twitter thread by Remy Levin

• 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 econ job market

I wrote a blog post on the market here (twitter thread version is here)

• Claudia Sahm’s JMP post

• Chase Eck, Kelli Marquardt, and Dana Shaat’s Guide on Mentally Preparing for the Job Market

  • Their Guide to JM Guides here

• Graphs re: JOE job postings over time here by Andrew Lilley

• Twitter bot with JOE job info: @EconJobsBot made by @TheKeveloper

• Benjamin Vatter’s “Job Market Application Tracker”

• Advice on non-academic cover letters here

• UC Berkeley DEI statement resources here and here

• Google sheet template here for keeping track of reference letter submissions

• AEA webinar on the job market here (it covers applying, interviews, negotiating, and more)

• Great twitter threads on 1st round interviews, 1st round interview questions, and flyouts from Natalia Emanuel

• Negotiation advice: memo/advice from Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz & lecture on “How to Negotiate Your Job Offer” by Deepak Malhotra