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Specification Curve Analysis: Overview and Stata Example

Overview Research reproducibility topic has been gaining momentum over the past decade. There have been many studies reporting inability to replicate published results and lack of necessary details in methods description.

Victoria L. Prince

Oct 10, 2021 9 min read Methods

Easier web scraping in R with tidyverse

I recently used R for a moderately complicated scraping task, and found that using tools and techniques from the tidyverse made for a very pleasant web scraping experience, especially for retrieving nested data.

Ista Zahn

Jan 10, 2020 4 min read R

Synthetic Controls: brief overview with practical recommmendations

Recently, I found myself researching the latest developments on the topic of Synthetic Controls (SC) for one of the projects. I had the pleasure of learning about the method from its co-author Prof.

Victoria L. Prince

Sep 12, 2019 9 min read Methods

Web Scraping in R

Let’s walk through some steps for web scraping with R. On this Wikipedia page there is a table of visa requirements that I want to scrape. Let’s use the rvest package to get the HTML associated with that page:

Andrew Marder, Victoria L. Prince

Aug 8, 2019 2 min read R

If you’re new to Make, check out Mike Bostock’s article Why Use Make, it’s excellent! This post is intended as a follow-up to Mike’s introduction. I love Makefiles because they allow me to describe my workflow as a directed acyclic graph.

Jun 19, 2017 3 min read