Kyle Butts

I have a script that should pop up after installing the extension and opening a do file. Does it not do that?

Does anyone have really good examples of a github repository for a research paper. Trying to get good examples for a lesson I'm giving

github.com/kylebutts/vs...
If you are using vscode and stata, you should try out my extension. It uses interactive window which let's you write in a `.do` file but get a notebook type experience.

The answer is all 0s !!! what a frustrating choice !!!!

one would hope!

Stata quiz. what do you think the output of `tab` will be?

```
sysuse auto, replace
reg mpg i.rep78 if rep78 == 2, nocons
predict xb
tab xb if rep78 != 2
```

Kyle Butts Kyle Butts -- Urban Economics and Applied Econometrics

kylebutts.com/blog/2025-04...

A short blog post for efficient stats coding. All about the importance of dimensionality when doing matrix operations ft. 100x speed-up of my code

TIL how to download census data (www2.census.gov) super simply.

Finder: Go > Connect to Server > ftp://ftp2.census.gov/. Login as guest and 🤯

great little explanation on why to avoid passive voice refactoringenglish.com/chapters/pas...

R tip: If you run code but forget to save it in a variable, you can use `.Last.value` in the console.

More, if you want to copy the result to your clipboard, use `clipr::write_last_clip`:

Scatter plot of bill depth vs. length by species (color) and sex (symbol). It shows positive correlations for all species with males tending to have bigger bills than females. sym <- c(1, 16) pal <- c("darkorange","purple","cyan4") plot(bill_dep ~ bill_len, data = penguins, pch = sym[sex], col = pal[species])

🚨 The "penguins" data is coming to the base #rstats{datasets} in 4.5.0!

@ellakaye.co.uk & @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy r prepared an adapted and a raw version of the data set based on the {palmerpenguins} 📦 by @allisonhorst.bsky.social @apreshill.com and Kristen Gorman.

📈 Scatter plot:

WHAT YOU THOUGHT I ONLY HAVE 1 CUTE DOG ?? THINK AGAIN

Probably doesn’t matter much for this map, but I like st_point_on_surface() because centroids could be not within the shape for weird shaped counties

snow day in Fayetteville

Positron Assistant by georgestagg · Pull Request #6361 · posit-dev/positron Initial Positron Assistant scaffolding. FAO @jmcphers.

👀 github.com/posit-dev/po...

I use this tip more so when I find a pdf in github I want to skim. Github’s pdf preview is a terrible experience, so I switch to nbviewer

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I think it should not if they can view GitHub.com/. It might even fix some ppl's problems since nbviewer will download the pdf from GitHub and serve that to you

Quick tip:

If you store a pdf on GitHub, like this:
github.com/kylebutts/Ge...

You can make an easy to view link by replacing `github.com/` with `nbviewer.org/github/` and it looks like this: nbviewer.org/github/kyleb...

You can tell companies’ AI projects are going really well because every app is bait-and-switching their most commonly pressed button with something called like “Answers By Glorp” to get people to even accidentally use it

for the love of the game. spent all day yesterday making my julia function go from 70 microseconds to 500 nano seconds. the paper is already submitted 🤓

judge: “so you said the true vote share is in this interval 95% of the time? how could that be true if the true vote share is not in that interval”

yes, please! You can email me and I'll tell you if it's what I had in mind!

Working on a new R package. Looking for applications that do two things:

1. DID with y to show an effect
2. DID with X to show a possible “mechanism” of why treatment changed y

This could be a published paper or a paper you're working on (that I might help make "fancier" / cooler !!)

Is there a better sign of AI hype than MICROSOFT creating a package to convert docx/pptx -> md USING CHAT GPT ????https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

never felt so seen

I agree re zed; It's so nice visually. If I was a better programmer, maybe I could just `source()` but I'm too much of a print debugger 🙃

have you used it for R?

Now would be a great time for overleaf users (my coauthors) to delete their account and stop making me use the bad web app

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia Apply for Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Res...

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc

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Bibliography Function – Typst Documentation Documentation for the `bibliography` function.

Typst is *so fast*. Type a sentence, add a table, etc. and hit save. By the time you turn your head to look it's updated.

I haven't used it with citations yet, but it looks super easy typst.app/docs/referen.... If you have a .bib file, you can do citations