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Grant McDermott
@grant_mcdermott
Assistant prof. | U. of Oregon | Environmental econ. & data science | Occasional rugby tweets | 🇿🇦 in 🇺🇸
Aug 2, 2020 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Since various SW benchmarks are going around today... A short thread on why I use #rstats.

Put simply, it offers by far the fastest & most efficient tools for the work I do (i.e. mostly data wrangling & applied econometrics). (Disclaimer: This thread is *not* tying to get you to change from your preferred SW. You should use whatever you feel comfortable with. But I will try to highlight some objective facts that matter to me.)
Jan 9, 2019 • 21 tweets • 16 min read
I'm teaching a "data science for economists" course this semester.

If you're interested in learning more about #rstats, Git(Hub), programming, databases, cloud computation, ML, etc., I'll be making all of my course material publicly available here: github.com/uo-ec607 As I say in the syllabus, this course basically covers all of the things I wish I'd been taught in grad school. At the same time, I've benefited immensely from so many people making their teaching materials (and software!) publicly available. This is me trying to pay it forward.