Data from NYT’s “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election”
NYT has a cool new dataviz called An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election. Really, it's just a more detailed version of their initial county election page which I…
Preparation for: Municipality level social inequality in Brazil
I was reviewing a paper on social inequality in Brazil at the state level (I published one myself in 2015), and it struck me that one should be able to…
Scraping: temperature and precipitation data for all NOAA weather stations
Some people claim that the climate has direct causal influences on income, cognitive ability and so on. Usually, these academics just regress IQ on climate variables at the country or…