Matt Birch

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Hello! My name is Matt and I am an economist who occasionally moonlights as a data scientist. I started out as an econ professor (see my first couple hundred...

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R Shorts Reading a CSV from GitHub to R Studio

R Shorts Clearing the R environment with a line of code

R Shorts read.csv() and write.csv()

GitHub without the fancy command line stuff Connecting GitHub and R Studio with GitHub Desktop

R Shorts Commenting Out Lots of Code at Once

Parallel Computing in R

R Shorts Timing Your Code

R Shorts AppearanceThemes

Intro to R-Markdown

Naming Items in a For Loop in R

R Tips Using Merge to Join Data Sets

Why Multicollinearity is Lame A Graphical Demonstration

Instrumental Variables in Python Estimating Price Elasticity

Lorenz Curves and Gini Coefficients in Excel

Income Distribution in Excel Means, Frequency, Totals, Percentages, Cumulative Percentages

Intro to Excel, Mean, and Variance

Optimal Pollution and Pollution Reduction An Overview

Price Mark-Up, Elasticity, and the Lerner Index

Logical Fallacies The Fallacy Fallacy

Calculating NPV and Expected Values in a spreadsheet

Logical Fallacies Personal Incredulity

Isoquants and Isocosts What are they

Why this Anecdote CanNOT Disprove that Data

Logical Fallacies Anecdotes vs Data

Logical Fallacies Ad Hominem

Logical Fallacies The Strawman

My YouTube Video Source

Skyrocketing house prices explained (Every Day Econ)

2021 Gas Shortage Explained (Every Day Econ)

Running Your First Regression in Excel