Publications by Akash
Plotting US Presidential Elections Outcomes 1976-2016
AAEC8610 HW5 Option 1 Exploring Spatial Analysis and Mapping in R Optional task 1: Map presidential elections results with the maps package 1. Download the elections file from harvard database: 2. Load the data, and clean it up: 3. Try to make a map just for one year: R code: Loading and Cleaning R Code: Creating US Map For Presidential Electio...
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Exploring R Markdown
Introduction In this project of exploring R markdown and its beauty, I chose to practice text analaysis in the basic form of a wordcloud. Here, I have used the historical database of the United States Presidents’ State Of The Union Addresses (SOTU) all the way from George Washington to the current resident in the White House (as of now). The go...
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Replicating New Yorker on Piketty
Homework: Piketty’s Inequality Story in Three Charts Akash 2020-02-01 16:37:26 Reference and disclaimer: This homework is attempting to reproduce parts of the New Yorker article by John Cassidy, dated March 26, 2014, and titled Piketty’s Inequality Story in Six Charts. All text was lifted directly from that article. Figures are compiled usin...
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Business Cycle And Search Hits For Unemployment
Introduction How Business Cycles impact the search “hits” for Unemployment? Overview Here, I am interested to explore whether the search for topics such as Unemployment, Medicaid, Health Insurance and Food Stamps is influenced by business cycles (defined as periods of economic expansion and contraction) in the United States. I examine perio...
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Regression Discontinuity Econometrics in R
Code Show All Hide All Task 10: Regression Discontinuity a. Download and read the paper: b. Get the Carpenter & Dobkin and data: Download Data Load and summarise data Create subset data with needed variables Make Over21 dummy variable: c. Reproduce Figure 3 of the paper d. Simplest regression-discontinuity design Run “Simple RDD”: Anly...
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Discussion on 1918 Influenza pandemic On Adult Economic Outcomes
Today’s Discussion: Long-term consequences of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Presenter: Akash Last updated: April 27, 2020 Causal Link: 1918 influenza pandemic a “natural experiment” testing “fetal origins hypothesis” on adults socio-economic outcomes. Identification: First, the pandemic struck without warning in October 1918 and ha...
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How ML AI Is Being Used for COVID-19
ML & AI In The Time of a Pandemic Presenter: Akash Last updated: April 30, 2020 ML & AI are being sought to help with the early detection and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Economics of A Pandemic: Pandemic Current Application of ML & AI Chile Reference: How digital technologies are helping to flatten the curve https://www.weforum.org/a...
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