After reading a very insightful post a few weeks ago (that I’ve since lost the link to…sorry), I’ve decided to close the comments section on all posts on my blog. Yes, the spam is annoying to deal with, but I’ve had some great experiences over the years meeting people who comment on my posts. I [...]

Lately many of my posts have involved the Stata programming language. I think that the amount I’ve been blogging about Stata warrants a blog of it’s own to separate these from other topics that I cover. So, starting today you can find my writings on Stata tips and tricks at my a new blog Statabytes. [...]

It’s not as easy as it looks to get javascript to run from inside a WordPress post. For a recent post, I wanted to run a one-off javascript so I didn’t want to change the header.php file in my theme. Instead I found this info on the WordPress codex on how to call javascript from [...]

This post is mostly a note to myself covering some of the research I’ve been doing over the past day with mapping data for the web. I’ve found a number of really nice interactive mapping tools that I’m looking into including Mapbox, OpenLayers, Polymaps and Google Maps API. Although they look nice, I’ve been avoiding [...]

As an economist my view of data I use is generally some variation of “it’s just data” That is, data is just one input among many that I’ll use to create something. I didn’t think too much about data other than to be frustrated when acquiring the data necessary for a given project is more [...]