Tal Gross

This week we ‪(with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social talk with @talgross.bsky.social on The Hidden Curriculum on productivity and how to improve our teaching and some ideas for new exercises for your class!

I gave up on LyX a long time ago. Now, I just use Overleaf with co-authors or else a text editor on my own.

GitHub - talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams: A template to create paper exams with LaTeX A template to create paper exams with LaTeX. Contribute to talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's a better way to write exams in TeX: github.com/talgross-bu/...

I posted this thread on Twitter years ago, but I'm switching over to BlueSky. (Not unrelated, I'm proud to be driving a Hyundai EV.)

That's Stata, here's a start in R.

Step 3: eliminated unnecessary ink.

Step 2: all text horizontal. Horizontal text is easier to read than vertical text.

Step 1: labels not legends. This makes the graph much easier to read.

To start, here's a graph with the default Stata options.

Make your graphs better in three easy steps…

GitHub - talgross-bu/Template-for-Overleaf: A LaTeX Template for Economics Papers A LaTeX Template for Economics Papers. Contribute to talgross-bu/Template-for-Overleaf development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here is a LaTeX / Overleaf template for academic papers. This document has a bibliography already incorporated and has shells to incorporate multi-panel figures and complex tables.

github.com/talgross-bu/...

…and in the age of generative AI, paper exams are all we have left.

GitHub - talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams: A template to create paper exams with LaTeX A template to create paper exams with LaTeX. Contribute to talgross-bu/LaTeX-template-for-exams development by creating an account on GitHub.

It's midterm season. If you're giving a paper exam, consider using this LaTeX shell to write the exam. It adds up all of the points for you and it compiles a solution booklet for you, too.
github.com/talgross-bu/...

I'm teaching two MBA classes this semester: Health Strategy and Managerial Economics. If you are an instructor and my slides might be useful for you, please DM me / email me. I'll send them over.

ChatGPT can help you deal with tables in LaTeX

Tomorrow is the first of November. Consider trying "No Scroll November" if online distractions are a problem for you. For one month, switch to less-harmful habits like gasoline huffing and amateur explosives.

Creating slides for class and I broke ChatGPT