Thursday, November 23, 2017

Cool Data Alert: Distances Between Zip Codes

Here it is. Thank you to the NBER for putting it together and especially to Jean Roth for creating the Stata files. 

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Twitter, Now a Source of Data Not Just Procrastination

If you have Stata 15, you can now very easily import Twitter data directly into Stata using the command twitter2stata. More details here. Tweet that!

Monday, November 6, 2017

Need a Dissertation Topic in Applied Micro?

Browse through this website, Our World in Data. Not only can you check out some really fascinating relationships in the world, but you will get some sense for the data sets that exist out there and what types of information they contain. Anything spark your interest?