Markov Wanderer

10 less well-known Python packages

(Remember that to use these, you will need to run pip install packagename on the command line.)
Oct 24, 2020
Arthur Turrell

 

A better narrative on narratives

Pigou, Keynes and Shiller have all recognised the importance of narratives and sentiment for the economy. But we don’t know too much about how narratives spread. One of the…
Nov 10, 2017
Arthur Turrell

Blog: Markov Wanderer

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Arthur Turrell

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Building an API in the cloud in fewer than 200 lines of code

Cloud tools and Python packages have become so powerful that you can build a…
Sep 28, 2023
Arthur Turrell

Data science maturity and the cloud

Data science has enormous…
Mar 1, 2023
Arthur Turrell

 

Econometrics in Python Part II - Fixed effects

In this second in a series on econometrics in Python, I’ll look at how to implement fixed effects.
Feb 20, 2018
Arthur Turrell

 

Econometrics in Python Part IV - Running many regressions alongside pandas

The fourth in the series of posts covering econometrics in Python. This time: automating the boring business of running multiple regressions on columns in a pandas dataframe.
May 5, 2018
Arthur Turrell

The wrapped Cauchy distribution

Econometrics in Python part I - Double machine learning

The idea is that this will be the first in a series of posts covering econometrics in Python.
Feb 10, 2018
Arthur Turrell

The true tau as a function of X-zero and X-one

Econometrics in Python part III - Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects using random forests

The third in a series of posts covering econometrics in Python. Here I look at ‘causal forests’.
Mar 28, 2018
Arthur Turrell

Get organised

This monster blog post is going to discuss how to organise your a data science project or research project: data…
Jun 26, 2019
Arthur Turrell

In praise of APIs (application programming interfaces)

In this blog, I look at some of reasons why APIs are such a great way to share data.
Dec 18, 2022
Arthur Turrell

Making a publication quality plot with Python (and latex)

I now recommend the style file below for quick…
Jan 31, 2018
Arthur Turrell

Putting women scientists onto Wikipedia

In a previous post, I shared links about the predictors for not participating in higher education, and about how it is difficult to reach…
Aug 25, 2018
Arthur Turrell

 

Setting up R in Visual Studio Code

T…
Nov 4, 2021
Arthur Turrell

Specification curve analysis

Since publishing this post, I have written the specification_curve package for Python. specification_curve automates some aspects of specification curve analysis, namely running multiple regressions and…
Jan 25, 2019
Arthur Turrell

TIL: How to break RSS feeds

Note: this is the first post under a new tag called TIL or “today…
Nov 2, 2022
Arthur Turrell

TIL: Obsidian, and integrating it with Zotero

I’ve long been interested in how best to store knowledge; so much that I wrote about it in this post (in the context of the public sector). Today I learned how to combine Obsidian and…
Jul 9, 2023
Arthur Turrell

The ONS API

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces most of the macroeconomic statistics for the UK. I was delighted to discover recently that they had been working on an API.
Dec 28, 2017
Arthur Turrell

Posteriors for outturn, trend, and seasonality.

The explosion in time series forecasting packages in data science

There have been a series of sometimes jaw-dropping developments in data…
Sep 12, 2023
Arthur Turrell

Map of self-storage units according to Open Street Map.

The mystery of stuff: why all the self-storage?

There’s a mystery at the fringes of our towns and cities: beyond the concrete circulars and just off the dual carriageways, a seemingly growing amount of our stuff is…
Jun 15, 2023
Arthur Turrell

 

The public sector could be better at managing knowledge ‘data’: what can we do?

Who thinks the public sector is good enough at managing its stock of knowledge; the ideas, strategies, processes, and decisions that go into the efficient provision of…
Feb 8, 2023
Arthur Turrell

 

The self-storage problem meets chatGPT

In a previous post, I looked at four ways we might be able to establish the way that the number of self-storage facilities is trending over time. You can read that post using this…
Jun 30, 2023
Arthur Turrell

Three ways to blog with code

Typically, what I want to do when I create a blog post is to…
Feb 12, 2021
Arthur Turrell

Visual Studio Code on the Cloud

Visual Studio Code is incredibly powerful, whether it’s for writing markdown, writing quarto (.qmd) files, getting syntax highlighting and peerless…
Sep 28, 2022
Arthur Turrell

Welcome To The New Home for My Blog

This is the first post on a brand new blog site: welcome!
Oct 16, 2022
Arthur Turrell

Youth higher education participation rate by local authority district. Shown are Manchester and the Peak District.

Who is not participating in Higher Education?

Given my work in both economics and Science, Technology, Engineering, and…
Aug 18, 2018
Arthur Turrell

 

Why the latest, most exciting thing in machine learning is… game theory

And when I say latest, this particular method was invented in 1953.
Jul 11, 2018
Arthur Turrell

Why you shouldn’t code on your work laptop

“Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft” goes an old saying. Actually, it was probably first said in the 1980s in reference to IBM (School Microcomputing Bulletin 1983), but the meaning remains the same: as the Chief Technology Officer, or similar, you’re not going to get in trouble for buying the boring old thing that everyone else is…
Jan 13, 2023
Arthur Turrell

Writing a Research Blog Post

In this post, you will find hints and tips for writing impactful blog posts that summarise research or analysis. This is a cross-post with a new page on Coding for Economists title…
Feb 21, 2022
Arthur Turrell
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