External Resources (for students)

Stata

• • StataCorp's YouTube Channel tutorials for data cleaning/management, analysis, and visualization in Stata.

  • Online Stata Tutorials, Princeton

  • Institute for Digital Research and Education, UCLA.

  • A full course on Stata, the University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Stata Cheat Sheets and More Resources, by Tim Essam, Laura Hughes, Aaron Chafetz & Doug Johnson

  • Visualization Resources from the Stata Blog: Stata's "Visual overview for creating graphs", Plotplain and Plottig by Daniel Bischof, Stata schemes 

  • More? Browse Stalalist, Stackexchange, or Stackoverflow

Python

• Introduction to Data Analysis with Python, by Monash SoDa Labs (an excellent way to start)

• Web Scrapping in Python, by Monash SoDa Labs.

• Fuzzy matching at scale: PolyFuzz by Maarten Grootendorst. PolyFuzz performs fuzzy string matching, string grouping, and contains extensive evaluation functions. While some methods will work only on relatively small samples, some methods (e.g.,  TF-IDF) can be used for fuzzy strings matching with large datasets (millions of observations). 

• More? Browse Stackexchange, or Stackoverflow

QGIS

• QGIS Tutorial and Tips 

• More? Browse Stackexchange, or Stackoverflow

Writing in Economics (term paper, Master or Honors' dissertation)

• Writing Economics  by Robert Neugeboren with Mireille Jacobson (Harvard FAS)

• A Guide to Writing in Economics by Paul Dudenhefer (Duke University)