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Matt Cowgill

@mattcowgill.bsky.social

economics-talking guy, R enthusiast

5,058 Followers  |  819 Following  |  385 Posts  |  Joined: 03.05.2023  |  1.8071

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I love the FT, but who is asking for Martin Wolf on the sounds of summer

26.07.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

my favourite type of post: shows how to use public data to produce something interesting with just a few lines of R code

23.07.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

a rare Kirchner post with which I have some disagreements!

19.07.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Abundance has generated more bad and weird takes online than any book since Piketty’s Capital

14.07.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I do not

14.07.2025 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

westland_ebooks

14.07.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

would listen to the one hour podcast version of this thread

12.06.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I made some good PPTX slides when I was at Grattan Institute

01.06.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

why is PCA copping strays here lol

27.05.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

what happened to the positive visions of the future from my youth (Cher’s clothes computer in Clueless)

24.05.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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r u OK

23.05.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Busselton just got an airport

22.05.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jony Ive is truly an inspiration to bald men everywhere.

We, as a group, need some wins

21.05.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

ChatGPT is a chat-based interface to a family of large language models made by OpenAI. Hope that helps!

16.05.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

there’s a certain normcore matplotlib chart style that now screams β€œChatGPT made this”

16.05.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations - Senior Economist/Assistant Director

if you’re an Australian economist interested in public policy and the labour market, come work with me!

dewr.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

06.05.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

🌟

10.05.2025 06:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

no

08.05.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I got great feedback from Chris from my team about these courses!

07.05.2025 07:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations - Senior Economist/Assistant Director

🚨 Job alert! 🚨

There's a couple of economist roles going at the Australian Public Service and I hear that #rstats is a desirable skill for the role!

Senior Economist/Assistant Director:
tinyurl.com/2dk99y85

Economist:
tinyurl.com/3bhzpvww

#econsky

07.05.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Department of Employment and Workplace Relations - Senior Economist/Assistant Director

if you’re an Australian economist interested in public policy and the labour market, come work with me!

dewr.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

06.05.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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@mattcowgill.bsky.social aims to govern in just a few lines of R code

29.04.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

weird and bad take

28.04.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

lol no but now I want to. I’ve read Crashed and Shutdown but clearly not as much of a Toozer as Joe W

22.04.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m Wolfmaxing

21.04.2025 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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shots fired

21.04.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

@hughparsonage.bsky.social relevant to your interests

20.04.2025 07:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

my favourite type of coding is spitecoding

If you ever want me to code something up, simply say β€œI bet R can’t do [x]”

19.04.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Correct opinion!

18.04.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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