Publications by Econometrics and Free Software
Poorman’s automated translation with R and Google Sheets using {googlesheets4}
A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll be sending the text you want to translate to Google, so don�...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many things wrong wit...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many thing...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many things wrong wit...
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A year in review
This blog post just contains the links I mention in my video that you can watch here. I mention the following books, packages, and people in my video: echarts4r targets easystats Applied Economics with R coolbutuseless Data Science ZJ and disk.frame Statistical Rethinking Golem and Engineering production-grade shiny apps ModernDive Many others ...
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A year in review
This blog post just contains the links I mention in my video that you can watch here. I mention the following books, packages, and people in my video: echarts4r targets easystats Applied Economics with R coolbutuseless Data Science ZJ and disk.frame Statistical Rethinking Golem and Engineering production-grade shiny apps ModernDive ...
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A year in review
This blog post just contains the links I mention in my video that you can watch here. I mention the following books, packages, and people in my video: echarts4r targets easystats Applied Economics with R coolbutuseless Data Science ZJ and disk.frame Statistical Rethinking Golem and Engineering production-grade shiny apps ModernDive Many others ...
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How to draw a map of arbitrary contiguous regions, or visualizing the spread of COVID-19 in the Greater Region
Introduction I was able to blog during the year 2020 without mentioning the ongoing pandemic once. It’s not that I made any conscious effort not to talk about it, but I did not really want to do something that had already been done a 1000 times. This changed this year, when I wanted to look at the spread of COVID-19, not only in the Grand-Duchy...
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R makes it too easy to write papers
I’m currently working on a preprint on the spread of COVID-19 in Luxembourg. My hypothesis is that landlocked countries, especially ones like Luxembourg that have very close ties to their neighbours have a very hard time controlling the pandemic, unlike island countries which can completely close off their borders, impose very drastic quarantin...
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Server(shiny)-less dashboards with R, {htmlwidgets} and {crosstalk}
In this blog post, I want to discuss something that I, personally, have never seen discussed; how to create a “serverless” (or “shinyless” you could say) dashboard using R. I made one dashboard like that, which you can find here. This dashboard is running on a simple, standard web server. No Shiny involved! The idea is to create a dashboa...
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