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Glad you're enjoying Open Torque Viewer. It's my creation. :)

What are you talking about? Did you even look at their section on job search? It is most definitely a macro application. Disregarding the fact that job search is a subtopic of unem…

I thinks it's great that 2 well known economists with household names in the academy have taken to marketing programming to economists. I just wish they would have called this vent…

You bring up a good point in that the use cases for each language varies. R is a good example because one of the main reasons it is chosen is due to the fact that it already has th…

I used to be gung-ho about convincing economists to use Python (started econpy.org in the 1st year of my PhD in economics, stopped updating it after 2 years). But now I just don't …

A case of self-selection, of course.

I have been researching the used car market for the last year in an academic lab. I would love to share stories about data collection and management if Carlypso folks are intereste…

I've done a Google Ngrams API that generates plots in XKCD style here: https://github.com/econpy/google-ngrams and a webapp version with slightly more advanced XKCD tweaks here: ht…

Thanks for the info and I do look forward to the new API! However my question still remains with regards to historic posts/comments. The historic aspect is really the import elemen…

Since writing a scraper to discover and parse all historical comments/submissions on HN would obviously get me in trouble, would the HN admins be willing to provide a dump of the h…

eBay's completed listings is definitely one of the best applications of obtaining sales data on the Internet that I'm aware of. Besides that, in some cases there are ways to imperf…

Economist and long time web scraper here. In your original business model you wanted to understand the price of everything. In what ways did the problem of a lack of information on…

As a long time pandas user, I'd say this is one of the better write-ups I've seen that illustrates the versatility and functions of the Series and DataFrame objects without being t…

Confirmed about the generational decline: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=by+and+large&y...

Minor in economics. Skip on taking extra macro classes and instead take as many econometrics and micro that you can. Economics (or another quantitative social science) is often the…

Although not primarily in the discovery space, if you're a user of arXiv, you may be interested in the n-gram viewer our lab made: http://arxiv.culturomics.org

Despite this clip being a classic classroom example in a game theory course, it's technically not a prisoner's dilemma, for a couple reasons. First, in the PD the players cannot co…

Porsche is owned by the Volkswagen Group who has a completely different strategy than Tesla. Volkswagen already makes money off makes and models marketed across the spectrum of con…

I'd encourage any economist that has a knack for programming to really put in some time towards the area. I've owned econpy.org for about 3 years now (although I haven't updated it…

Damn, just when I leave Harvard, Schneier comes to town. Would have loved to do some work with him on security theater.

Fun fact about Aeroflot: The slogan for Aeroflot back in the days of the USSR was "You Have Made The Right Choice" , which is ironic since Aeroflot was the only airline in the Sovi…

Detailed examples of the model of failure described in the post are bound to be few and far between because of the massive selection problem. People who fail are way less likely th…

Don't get me wrong, as a general statement I support free markets. However, Keynes' thesis (which is misinterpreted 96% of the time I hear someone talking about it) was simply that…

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