John Hill

GitHub - mcanouil/quarto-wizard: Quarto Wizard is a Visual Studio Code extension that assists you in managing Quarto projects. Quarto Wizard is a Visual Studio Code extension that assists you in managing Quarto projects. - mcanouil/quarto-wizard

Streamline Your #Quarto Projects with Quarto Wizard! 🧙‍♂️🪄✨

Easily manage your Quarto projects with this Visual Studio Code extension. Browse, select, and install Quarto extensions seamlessly from the Quarto Extensions listing repository. Enhance your development experience.
github.com/mcanouil/qua...

{ami} helps your #rstats code detect and adapt to its environment. Version 0.2.1 is now in CRAN with support for detecting Positron, #python venvs, and more. briandconnelly.github.io/ami/

Types of Econ Papers by @maximananyev.bsky.social
#econsky #xkcd

website: page-footer: right: - text: "{{< iconify simple-icons bluesky >}}" href: https://bsky.app/profile/ivelasq3.bsky.social

Want to add a Bluesky icon to your #Quarto site? 🦋

• Install quarto-iconify: github.com/mcanouil/qua...
• Add as 'text'

- text: "{{< iconify simple-icons bluesky >}}"
href: bsky.app/profile/ivel...

Example code: github.com/ivelasq/pipe...
Related GH link: github.com/quarto-dev/q...

GitHub - r-wasm/quarto-drop: Drop down an interactive R or Python console, code editor, and plotting window from the top of your Quarto slides. Drop down an interactive R or Python console, code editor, and plotting window from the top of your Quarto slides. - r-wasm/quarto-drop

Have you ever given a presentation and wished you had an #RStats or #Python console right there in your slides?

@gwstagg.bsky.social shared: Quarto Drop is a #Quarto extension that adds an interactive console into a Quarto reveal.js presentation.

Learn more: github.com/r-wasm/quart...

A tour of garden centres

If the alphanumeric Library of Congress catalogue has any merits over Dewey decimal classification please let me know what they are!

Since COVID, I recorded a ton of introductory lectures on data science, and data cleaning/visualization on Excel and R on Youtube. Finally managed to curate the most useful ones for beginners/newcomers and put them up on my website: akinunver.org/teaching

Did you know?
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Slides
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Github
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#EconSky 📈📉

library(conflicted)

quarto-webr rendered code box nested in tabset

quarto-webr rendered solution box nested in tabset

Another useful tip is to use quarto's `panel-tabset` to present a code window and solution in a pair of tabs. Students can evaluate their code, check the solution if necessary, and return to repair their own work. I usually structure their code box with comments/headings/tips to keep them moving.

Not a full quants module, but I’m using quarto-webR for labs in labour economics and it’s been a joy. All the benefits of RStudio Cloud with zero costs, simple UI, perfect for combining live code cells and explanatory text/exercises in quarto pages, host on GitHub pages: github.com/coatless/qua...

Title and abstract of the paper: Pearl before economists: the book of why and empirical economics Structural Causal Modeling (SCM) is an approach to causal inference closely associated with Judea Pearl and given an accessible instroduction in [Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The book of why: The new science of cause and effect. Basic Books]. It is highly popular outside of economics, but has seen relatively little application within it. This paper briefly introduces the main concepts of SCM through the lens of whether applied economists are likely to find marginal benefit in these methods beyond standard economic approaches to causal inference. The most promising areas are those where SCM's causal diagrams alone offer significant value: covariate selection, the development of placebo tests, causal discovery, and identification in complex models.

This paper by @nickchk.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1080/1350... ) is the best, most accessible introduction and explanation of how DAGs can be useful for causal inference for people more familiar with potential outcomes and econometrics-style approaches

statsky polisky econsky episky

Worthwhile discussion of the varieties of representation in western democracies, between David Runciman and Lea Ypi
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Check out deck.blue for a tweetdeck experience. Generate an app password here: bsky.app/settings/app...

Thanks. I hadn’t noticed that the app menu changes depending on whether I am already subbed to a feed.

What is the difference between favouriting, pinning and importing a feed?

A long overdue reckoning is underway. I'll check on progress in 5 years time -- where, out of power, I expect The Spectator (and the Tories) will have re-discovered the benefits of the single market long before Labour gets there.

* Redwood was characteristically bitter despite having won, and his appeals to conspiracy are tiresome;
* Grant was calm and well informed -- which drew more stunned silence than rebuttal;
* Villiers has never been of this world so I won't waste my 300 characters.

I'll reply to myself.
* The pitch of Elliott's voice rose in proportion to the desperation of his claims;
* Cavendish made reasonable arguments but any appeal to sympathy for FoM for arts/culture is, ironically, misplaced as the UK prepares to enter another culture war election;

This is going be a hoot, isn’t it. Spectator tries introspection…

Looking forward to reading @kjhealy.bsky.social advice on `targets` and `renv`, both of which I already use. Often wrestle with `targets` but it does force you to explicitly consider project arrangement from day 1.

mptc.io/content/05-c...

Better late than never: latest Stata update speeds up reshape.

Who would like me to post on academic workflows using #Logseq ?

Hit 💙 or reply with requests…

logseq.com

Screenshot showing a list of Zotero add-ons: Better BibTeX, MDnotes, scite, Zotfile, Zutilo

Long time user of #zotero, here. There are my add-ins:

* BetterBibTex to set citation key format
`authAuthEa.lower+"."+year` and manage exports
* Zotfile to rename attachments where `%b` uses citation key; can also watch a folder

1/5

CrossRef's SimpleTextQuery can append DOIs to formatted citations (right-click items > Generate Bib) but not without some grunt work. Python and regex can help. apps.crossref.org/SimpleTextQu...

5/5

DOIs are increasing important for literature mapping but Zotero does not provide DOI field for books. Can manually store `DOI:` in `Extra` field but it won't be detected by Scite (bug reported).

4/5

Pros:
* Reliable, cross-platform;
* Two-way sync to Zotero app on iPad

Cons:
* Collections are silos;
* No reminder if item appears in >1 collection. Would prefer dynamic collections;
* Tag feature is basic;
* Fulltext search is basic. Recoll (Linux/Win) provides un/ordered proximity searches.

3/5