Jared Hutchins

Apparently it is against the terms of service to do batch processing using the USPS API

#EconSky

I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.

Anyone have a way that they've done this?

do I dare to eat a peach?

staying ahead of @willwheels1.bsky.social

caught up through August, sorry about the notifications

or your back.

Hey, the Anxious Bench was on local radio WEFT last night! Our intro starts at 42:55 or so in the stream www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d9i27...

Regarding this work, my co-author and I had the privilege of being invited onto a roundtable discussion about our paper and implications for policy today. Thank you to Lawrence Lucas for inviting us!

Part 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QDj...

Part 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDrq...

a group of pumpkins are standing around a large pumpkin ALT: a group of pumpkins are standing around a large pumpkin

Mine is on the right (made from a stencil because I’m not artistically talented), partners on the left (freehand, because she very much is)

Happy Halloween!

Good data viz instincts here!

Seeing this Space Shuttle in person is genuinely one of the most breathtaking things I’ve witnessed—even knowing the scale of it, I was unprepared—& as an 80s kid I still romanticize NASA—what a loss this would be

Here's the key takeaway from our new Nature Climate Change piece.

I feel better for at first getting this question wrong

a cartoon of beavis and butthead sitting at a desk Alt: a cartoon of beavis and butthead sitting at a desk head banging

metal line

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

Attempting to add to the drama here: someone taught me to do this and I never looked back.

Buy a Costco bag of garlic, spend an hour crushing it all at once, freeze it into a bag.

Break off chunks of delicious garlic popsicle when you need it.

Table 2 of the paper, a list of popular APIs for data in applied economics

Bonus: I'm very proud of this table we did of public APIs, which we hoped could be useful for getting students started on APIs.

(though also nervous that these great data resources won't be available much longer if the admin keeps taking things down)

Figure 6 of the paper. Two county maps of the US, both with red-blue diverging colormaps. The first one uses 0 as the middle point, which makes it clear that unemployment fell. The other uses -1, and it leads to the conclusion that unemployment fell in only half of the country.

We finally got to discuss a huge pet peeve of mine: the non-sensical diverging point on a diverging colormap.

Our example here illustrates the real misinterpretation that can result from using the wrong diverging point. In this case, it leads us to think unemployment rose instead of fell!

Table 1 of the paper, showing packages in Python and R for each stage of the pipeline.

In my own experience teaching, I think the idea of a "pipeline" for data viz can be very helpful. In this paper, we use the collection -> processing -> visualization idea as a framework to discuss what tools exist in each language.

Figure 4 of the paper, shows a regular box plot plus one that Tufte shows in his paper erasing "nondata-ink"

In writing some of these sections, I did a deep dive into the seminal text by Edward Tufte. I think his minimalist style is often extreme for practitioners but helpful for teaching. His examples and principles help us think critically about when less can be more.

Out now in Applied Econ Teaching Resources! My co-author Andrew and I wrote this paper discussing teaching data viz in applied economics. I handle the Python and Andrew handles the R.

Some highlights for me from this paper:

www.aetrjournal.org/advance-acce...

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The holier than thou comments on this post decrying NPR not taking enough of a hard stance on the administration I think are shortsighted. Local, public media (like WILL in Illinois) is incredibly important for reasons behind NPR's news coverage.

what a wild thing to say to a group of tech investors

So glad they are settling in!

Thanks GOP—The moulds & deckles we ordered for paper making from Papertrail will be $150 more expensive thanks to your tariffs. Who will pay them? Not Canadians or Papertrail— @skeuomorphpress.org will pay it.

Tariffs are a tax on Americans & American institutions—such a self own www.papertrail.ca

YouTube video by The Anxious Bench A Song for Saige

A few years ago one of our kids realized the name they were born with wasn't quite right—& some of the folks who should have been her strongest advocates instead turned away—I wrote this song for her then & was proud to perform it with The Anxious Bench for the 1st time tonight #ProtectTransKids

almost forgot to like this skeet today