Software, code, and repositories
A short thread on software, code, versioning, citation, and repositories. Only very few AEA articles reference Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket repositories. More sho...
Blog posts
2021
File paths in statistical software
A short thread (PSA) on a FOC (frequently occurring problem) that shouldn’t be one: file paths in statistical software.
What data to provide
What do we mean by “data”?
Reproducible GIS
A note on reproducible GIS by economists: it’s mostly absent. Here are some tips.
A Day in the Life of a Data Editor
I wanted to illustrate the range of the various topics that a Data Editor might face, by taking a fairly random day (2021-01-29) and listing all the various ...
Follow-up to Fireside Chat
In this post, I’ll pick up questions that have been asked over Twitter or during the 2021-01-19 Fireside chat, in long form (Twitter is not always the best m...
A discussion about various things
Moved to later post.
2020
Release of a template README
We have released the first version of a template README for social sciences at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/.
An example of reproducibility checking when data is restricted-access
I wanted to highlight a recently (2020-04-30) published article in the AEJ:Economic Policy as an example of reproducibility checking when data is restricted-...