Building Blocks

Configure your computer

Statistics and Computation

Set up TeXmacs ^{1 mins} Set up Visual Studio Code ^{3 mins} Set up Sublime Text ^{2 mins} Install Python Packages ^{1 mins} Install Stata Packages ^{1 mins} Set up Git and GitHub ^{1 mins} Set up LaTeX ^{2 mins} Set up MATLAB ^{1 mins} Set up Pandoc ^{1 mins} Set up Perl ^{1 mins} Set up Python ^{1 mins} Set up R and RStudio ^{4 mins} Set up Stata ^{2 mins}

Automation and Workflows

Making Path Settings Permanent ^{2 mins} Set up Command Line Tools ^{3 mins} Set up Docker ^{4 mins} Set up Make ^{2 mins} Set up Snakemake ^{1 mins} Set up TeamViewer ^{1 mins} Set up the AWS Client ^{1 mins}

Research Infrastructure

Learn About the Various Ways to Setup a Research Infrastructure ^{5 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's Cartesius Cluster ^{1 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's LISA Cluster ^{1 mins} Getting Started with Research Cloud ^{3 mins} HPC TiU for Cloud Computing ^{2 mins} Set up SURF Research Drive and Rclone to Store Data ^{2 mins} Setting Up a New Workspace, Configuring Git and Adding Research Drive on Research Cloud ^{2 mins} Use Google Colab to Run Python in the Cloud ^{1 mins}

Task-specific Configurations

Configure Python virtual environments ^{3 mins} Configuring Python for Web Scraping ^{3 mins}

Develop your research skills

Learn to Code

Bring AI to your command line/terminal ^{6 mins} Learn Bash Commands ^{4 mins} Learn Python and Julia ^{1 mins} Learn R ^{2 mins} Learn Regular Expressions ^{11 mins}

Tips

Searching for Literature on the Web ^{2 mins} Build and Maintain a Reference List ^{5 mins} Cite Efficiently in Your Academic Paper ^{4 mins} Principles for Good Coding ^{2 mins} Python Coding Style Guidelines ^{1 mins} R Coding Style Guidelines ^{2 mins} Stata Coding Style Guidelines ^{4 mins} Comparing text editors ^{5 mins}

Collect your data

Web Scraping & APIs

Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping ^{1 mins} Extract Data From APIs ^{3 mins} Read & Write Data From APIs ^{1 mins} Scrape Dynamic Websites ^{2 mins} Scrape Static Websites ^{4 mins}

Workflows for Online Data Collection

Assess what Data is Available ^{4 mins} Calculate Sample Sizes for Web Scrapers ^{1 mins} Monitor and Safeguard Your Data Quality ^{3 mins} Online Data Collection and Management ^{1 mins} Online Data Sources for Economists ^{1 mins} Safeguard Legal Compliance When Scraping ^{6 mins}

Store and document your data

Store Data

Choose a Data Repository for Long-Term Storage ^{4 mins} Download Data Programmatically ^{6 mins} Safely Store Your Credentials By Configuring Environment Variables ^{2 mins} Use AWS S3 Buckets ^{3 mins}

Document Data

Document New Data ^{10 mins} README Best Practices ^{4 mins}

Prepare and visualize your data

Data Preparation

Handle Large Datasets In Python ^{3 mins} Import Large Datasets Into R ^{4 mins} Practical Example with Dask ^{6 mins} Clean Numeric Data Scraped From Social Media ^{1 mins} SPSS Data in R ^{9 mins} Data Preparation and Workflow Management ^{1 mins} Text Pre-processing in R ^{7 mins}

Data Visualization

Data Visualization Best Practices ^{9 mins} Plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn in Python ^{4 mins}

Analyze data

Regressions

Run a Regression Analysis ^{3 mins} Easy Standard Error Adjustment with `estimatr` ^{3 mins} Evaluate Model Assumptions ^{2 mins} Compute Marginal Effects ^{6 mins} Doing Calculations with Regression Coefficients Using deltaMethod ^{2 mins} Generate regression tables in R with the `modelsummary` package ^{17 mins} Intro to IV Estimation ^{5 mins} Create a publication-ready LaTeX regression table with `kableExtra` in R ^{8 mins} Generate a coefficient plot in R with the `modelplot` function ^{6 mins} Interpreting Regression Models in R ^{10 mins} Mediation Analysis Tutorial in R ^{12 mins} Interaction Terms ^{15 mins}

Regression Discontinuity

Sharp RD Designs ^{6 mins} Regression Discontinuity Plots ^{7 mins} Continuity-Based Approach ^{5 mins} Fuzzy RD Designs ^{7 mins} Fuzzy RDD in Practice ^{3 mins} Local Randomization Approach ^{9 mins} Validation and Falsification Analysis for RDD ^{9 mins} Impact evaluation with Difference-in-Differences and Regression Discontinuity ^{4 mins} Synthetic Control for Impact Evaluation ^{4 mins}

Regressions With Panel Data

An Introduction to Panel Data ^{11 mins} Fixed Effects Regression Assumptions ^{4 mins} The Pooled OLS Model ^{2 mins} The First-Difference Estimator ^{2 mins} The Fixed Effects Model (Within Estimator) ^{5 mins} Fixed-Effects Estimation in R With the `fixest` Package ^{7 mins} The Between Estimator ^{1 mins} The Random Effects Model ^{6 mins} An Introduction to Difference-in-Difference Analysis ^{9 mins} Canonical Difference-in-Difference as a Regression ^{7 mins} Staggered Difference-in-Difference Estimation ^{8 mins}

Machine Learning

Extreme gradient boosting with XGBoost in R ^{11 mins} In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning and R ^{1 mins}

Automate and execute your work

Automate your Workflow

Use Makefiles to Manage, Automate, and Reproduce Projects ^{4 mins} Configure a Self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions workflows ^{8 mins} Implement a GitHub Actions workflow for code formatting and testing ^{5 mins} Enhance Reproducibility and Automation with GitHub Actions ^{5 mins} Debugging Makefiles With Remake ^{6 mins} How to Automatically Install R Packages Used in a Project ^{1 mins} Schedule Recurring Tasks (e.g., by day, hour) ^{5 mins} Error Handling in Stata Workflows Using R ^{3 mins} tableFill for Reproducible Tables ^{3 mins} Make Tables and Figures Reproducible with Autofilling Values ^{1 mins} Share Large Temporary Files ^{3 mins} Use this Checklist to Improve Your Project's Structure and Efficiency ^{3 mins}

Make your Work Reproducible

Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability ^{6 mins} Configure a VM with GPUs in Google Cloud ^{7 mins} Package Management for R: renv ^{3 mins} Import and run a project environment with Docker on Google Cloud ^{11 mins} Export a Python Environment with Docker and Share It Through Docker Hub ^{11 mins} Docker for Reproducible Research ^{7 mins} Manage your R Packages with Packrat ^{5 mins} Run RStudio on AWS using Docker ^{5 mins} Monitor and solve memory constraints in your computational environment ^{4 mins} Handle storage within your Google Cloud instance ^{3 mins}

Collaborate and share your work

Write your Paper

Forest Plot Generation in R ^{5 mins} Visualizing data with Plotnine and Altair ^{2 mins} Use Overleaf to Collaborate on Research Papers ^{1 mins} LyX for Professional Research Papers and Presentations ^{1 mins} Get Started With Our Bookdown Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Get Started With Our LaTeX Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Stata Graphs Made Easy ^{2 mins} Stargazer: Exporting Publication-Ready Tables in R ^{1 mins} Cheatsheet for LaTeX Math Commands ^{6 mins}

Professionalize Project Management

Manage Your Projects Using the GitHub Project Board ^{1 mins} How to Prepare for (and Follow-up On) Scrum Meetings ^{2 mins} Best Practices for GitHub Issues Management ^{8 mins} Bring Open Science Practices to your Research Group ^{1 mins}

Publish on the Web

Build Interactive Dashboards with R Shiny ^{5 mins} Publish Ebooks and Interactive Articles Directly From R ^{1 mins}