Building Blocks

Configure your computer

Statistics and Computation

Git and GitHub LaTeX MATLAB Pandoc Perl Python Python Packages R and RStudio Stata Text editors

Automation and Workflows

AWS Client Command Line Tools Make Making Path Settings Permanent Snakemake TeamViewer

Task-specific Configurations

Configuring Python for Web Scraping

Research Infrastructure

Learn about the various ways to setup a research infrastructure

Develop your coding skills

Learn to Code

Learn Bash Commands Learn Python and Julia Learn R Learn Regular Expressions

Tips

Principles for Good Coding

Collect your data

Web Scraping & APIs

Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping Extract Data From APIs Read & Write Data From APIs Scrape Dynamic Websites Scrape Static Websites

Workflows for Online Data Collection

Assess what Data is Available Calculate Sample Sizes for Web Scrapers Monitor and Safeguard Your Data Quality Safeguard Legal Compliance When Scraping

Store and document your data

Store Data

Choose a Data Repository for Long-Term Storage Configure Environment Variables Download Data Programmatically Use AWS S3 Buckets

Document Data

Document New Data README Best Practices

Prepare your data for analysis

Data Preparation

Manipulate Data Clean Data Scraped From Social Media

Analyze data

Regressions

Run a Regression Analysis

Automate and execute your work

Automate your Workflow

Use Makefiles to Re-Run your Code Use this checklist to improve your project's structure Schedule recurring tasks (e.g., by day, hour) Share Large Temporary Files Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability

Error Handling

Make Stata Crash when encountering Errors

Collaborate and share your work

Write your Paper

Write a Professional Research Paper with LyX Create Slides in No Time with LyX Get Started With Our LaTeX Templates Export Your Tables for Print-ready Publications Cheatsheet for LaTeX Math Commands

Publish on the Web

Build Interactive Dashboards With R Shiny