Environmental & resource economist, assistant professor at @MontanaState. Water issues, climate adaptation, agriculture, land use, international development
Jan 23, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Here are the full materials for my data-science-in-economics course, for anyone who might benefit
The idea is to explicitly teach skills/tools that otherwise are only gained through RA experiences. Help level the playing field for research/PhDs/predocs
github.com/msu-econ-data-…
As well as expand job options outside of econ. Course is aimed at masters students and advanced undergrads.
If you like the materials, feel free to use them in your own teaching or learning. It all has an open license so you don't have to ask (but I'd love to hear about it!)
Dec 13, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
2 useful papers today on how you can get basically any answer you want from regressions using arcsinh(y) or log(y+1)
I made these graphs to show the problem: The mean of the transformed var (black lines) varies like crazy by what units you choose for y
