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Can Google Search data predict the economy?
@Google Chief Economist Hal Varian visited @Yale this week to present on how Google Trends can be used to forecast economic activity, including GDP, unemployment, and where you’ll buy your next coffee: https://t.co/fR2QmK87Mb
Hi #EconTwitter!
Interested in 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 #econometrics and forecasting?
Check out the material from @BruceEHansen's (@UWMadison) course "Advanced Time Series and Forecasting", which includes 500 slides covering most aspects on this topic.
Highly recommended!
📝 New post: Pietro Zanotta and I present a tool that allows to extract data directly from a web page. This technique, referred as web scraping, is illustrated in R with a real life example #rstats#rstatstweet#DataScience https://t.co/G77vvtySRl
Just finished the Text Data in #Economics course taught by @ellliottt at the @warwickecon Summer School 2022.
A fantastic public resource for those interesting in learning #textasdata, #NLP tools & #machinelearning methods.
You can freely access here: https://t.co/DLNQ4Kuskf
Since I found them super helpful yesterday for figuring out how to implement sensitivity checks in an RDD/RKD setup, here's a reminder to #EconTwitter that @paulgp's lecture notes on applied methods are free online: https://t.co/mSGgIg8pqg
Thanks Paul!
A Bloomberg Terminal costs $24,000 per year.
It's the portal to all the world's financial data.
Unaffordable for 99% of us.
Reserved for the Wall Street elite to outfox the normal investor.
Until now:
What is going on with the Ruble🇷🇺? Should it depreciate or appreciate?
I think there are forces both ways and that could possibly explain why it has moved around and recovered.
A thread about this little note with my genius friend @guido_lorenzoni
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https://t.co/hddDN7BKhG
Lecture slides for my 'Data Science Programming Methods' course STAT 447 from this Fall 2021 at U of Illinois are now accessible via https://t.co/hHewPJY3pl covering shell (incl sed/awk), markdown, git(hub), sql, lots of #Rstats up to packaging, and Docker. Enjoy!
Libro "Pobreza y desigualdad en América Latina" de Cicowiez, Gasparini y Sosa editado por el CEDLAS. Contiene las herramientas técnicas par el análisis de la pobreza monetaria y la desigualdad de ingresos (usando STATA).