Earth Engine Guide
I’m working on a guide to help economists get started using Google Earth Engine. The first draft of this guide is on this google doc, which seems fairly effective so far. Some of the contents:- common confusion about the client-side and server-side of Earth Engine functions- a typical workflow for developing Earth Engine code- notes…
Some tools for Bayesian Posterior Estimation
Below are some tools I’m familiar with as of 2023-04-07. Stan seems the most promising. I plan to come back and update this post in the future once I have finished a project. Stan – a power tool for Bayesian probability models Assuming you already want to sample from some posterior distribution… what tools are…
Getting Started with Julia
Julia is a young programming language that is gaining speed and usage in economics. There’s a growing number of sites exploring and teaching Julia in the context of economics. One great site is quantecon.org, and I hope to outline a few more examples in the future. To get started in Julia, here are a few…
Stata long-term project habits
So you’re starting a long-term project and will be using stata? There’s the quick and easy way to use stata (scripting) and a deeper, initially longer way (programming) that can save huge amounts of time in the long-run. I’ve heard from students that stata is often the less daunting of coding tools to use to…
What kind of programming?
All sorts! Mainly, let’s focus on types of programming useful for applied economics and econometrics. To start, we can cover a few basics in: Stata (for regressions, and all sorts of common ‘metrics goodies) Python (for easy graphics, data science, machine learning, web-scraping) R (for some statistical packages that can be cumbersome to use in…
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Aaron C Watt 