The shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic increased the full-time employment of physically disabled individuals by between 9 & 11 percent, say researchers at @stanforduniversity.bsky.social, @ucsandiego.bsky.social, and @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Por favor, ahora necesito que lo llamen "El Estrecho del Padrón".

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help track inflation risks in real time. A new ECB model based on machine learning informs experts how likely it is that inflation will be much higher or much lower than they expect link.europa.eu/6DkYW3

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach. #dataviz

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois. If you'd like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX...

Finally updated the search engine behind econlit-db to Meilisearch. Everything should be quite fast now -- under a second or two. Let me know if you have any bugs. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Day 15 of the #30DayChartChallenge: Correlation 📊 ❔️Scatter plot made with #RStats looking again at how people interpret the phrases "may happen" and "might happen" #30DayChartChallenge2026 #Day15

I have a journal joke, but it's $30 to see it

"I can't use Quarto because my coworkers don't code and they need to edit docume-" 👀 ✋🏼🔜 quarto.org/docs/blog/po... #rstats #quarto #databs

And for those still using Moodle, check out `moodlequiz` #rstats package (github.com/numbats/mood...) for a literate programming approach. @mitchelloharawild.com will be speaking on this at ICOTS in Brisbane this year!

UPD: this workshop has been rescheduled for May 7th, so you can still register if you haven't already! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky

Forthcoming article "Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity" by Cristina Arellano, Yan Bai and Luigi Bocola @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Por fin ha salido la edición en rústica (tapa blanda) de mi libro Ética para una sociedad abierta, a un precio muy inferior al de tapa dura. En este enlace lo encontraréis con un descuento adicional del 15 %: ethicspress.com/products/eth...

Hoy se celebra el Día Pi al ser 14 de marzo (es decir, 14/3 o 3/14 para los estadounidenses 🙃 ) También se celebra el Día Internacional de las Matemáticas. Así que celebrémoslo con una simulación mítica ya: cómo aproximar el valor del número Pi simplemente tirando bolitas dentro de un cuadrado 👇

Data labelling in R!

The R for the Rest of Us podcast is BACK! Mike Stackhouse from Atorus Research joined us for a chat about using AI with R effectively & safely. He gave a live demo creating clinical reports from scratch, demonstrating how to build reproducible analyses. Learn more: buff.ly/xPl00FL #Rstats #AI

Why are people across the world having fewer children, and can immigration solve the workforce problem this creates? @berkayozcan.bsky.social in an interview @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, we share about new LLM features in RStudio, some vibe checks on the new GPT 5.4 / Qwen3.5 / Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite releases, and an overview of the Anthropic / Pentagon saga. Read it here: posit.co/blog/2026-03...

I love me some Bluesky, but I can't help feeling this place has largely died as a forum for economists. Meanwhile it seems like econ discussion on the other site has made a comeback. How are others feeling about this?

We had a #DSLab walking through using the {mall} pkg + {ellmer} in #rstats (& chatlas in #python) to process text columns in a dataframe with LLMs. This is something I find super helpful, esp when the task is tedious, big, & only needs to be done once, then reviewed. #databs youtu.be/ZNHNVWUMTJA

I've got to say no no no #RStats

Happy International Women's Day! 💜 R-Ladies is for you. Here's how to join: → Find a chapter near you → Join Community Slack → Curate on Bluesky → Write for our blog → Volunteer with the global team Start here: rladies.org #RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

"We used a very common statistical procedure and applied functions from standard R packages" really is not a reason for not publishing the code.

People bragging about their .md files...

El próximo jueves voy a hablar en la Fundación FIDE sobre crecimiento económico en España, ¡os esperamos! areafide.com/sesiones/cic...

Pandas or polars for data manipulation in Python? On 19 March at 1:15pm UK time, Russ Hyde, Senior Data Scientist at Jumping Rivers, will compare both side by side and highlight what’s new in pandas v3.0. Register here: jumpingrivers.typeform.com/to/UmdyNbAs

The recordings from Shiny in Production 2025 are now available. Talks from speakers around the world on how they use Shiny in R and Python to solve real-world data problems. Watch the sessions: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

such a useful package!

Over the weekend, I started collecting/organizing a list of cool #rstats skills for LLMs at github.com/christopherk.... Please open an issue or PR in any awesome additions you see! Includes a section for helpful posts like @ivelasq3.bsky.social's⬇️

I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users. Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI. Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡 rworks.dev/posts/claude...

Interesting Stuff Post for my #databs folks Claude Skills for R Users, @ivelasq3.bsky.social rworks.dev/posts/claude... Prolific Output of Wes M. in Age of Agentic Eng, hackernews news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725... Where Have All the Metrics Gone, PyData25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8Qh...

From the DSLC.io aRchives: 🔵 🟢 🟣 DuckDB in Action: DuckDB in the cloud with MotherDuck youtu.be/raU96oAaBhA 🔵 ISLR: Classification Part 2 youtu.be/QE9Rjw11y7g Support the Data Science Learning Community at patreon.com/DSLC #dataBS #DuckDB #JuliaLang #PyData #RStats

Alright class, #rstats #dataabs, a question, and this will be on your exam: Code quality, in particular readability, and the management of complexity is *much* more important in data analysis than software engineering in general. Why?

Hey R and Python folks at #NICAR26 looking at coding agents for data analysis: Databot from Posit (formerly RStudio) is another option. It's an assistant for the Positron IDE specifically designed for data work. See a demo from September's Posit conference: youtu.be/Ve7cNChzq5Q?... #RStats #Python

Neoclassical economics emphasizes that international trade acts like an improvement in technology that is mutually beneficial. Tariffs are a tax on this trading technology, from Ralph Ossa and @reddingecon.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34915

@nadaesgratis.bsky.social desea que estéis disfrutando unas felices fiestas y, como somos economistas, un 2026 con más crecimiento, y menos inflación, paro y desigualdad. Agradecemos a todos vuestro esfuerzo para sostener el blog. ¡Cualquier donación es bienvenida! nadaesgratis.es/editores/por...

New lecture recordings for the new year! #databs #rstats #python #statisticalRethinking

Episode 215 of R Weekly Highlights is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/... 🤖 AI Newsl @simonpcouch.com @sara-altman.bsky.social 🎙️ The Test Set @mchow.com @hadley.nz @wesmckinney.com 🤔 Haskell for DS @jonocarroll.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social Sam Parmar 🙏 #RStats #databs

Recent DSLC.io club meetings: 🦆 DuckDB: Executing SQL Queries youtu.be/EHgXpnrJAB4 Visit dslc.video for hours of new #DataScience videos every week! #dataBS #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #duckdb

Interpretable Machine Learning by Christoph Molnar #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/machine%20learning.html#interpretable-machine-learning

1/ ✨ El viernes pasado, #LatinR2025 llegó a su cierre. Gracias, muchas gracias a todas las personas que participaron, presentaron, organizaron, enseñaron y acompañaron estos días. La comunidad #RStats hace posible este encuentro año tras año. 💜

Why Every Economics Student Should Be Using GitHub econ-jobs.com/media/why-ev...

"Plato fuerte" de esta *centésima reunión* del grupo será Michael Lawrence con "The wizrd package: agentic programming in R" paquete que permite a los Modelos de Lenguaje Grandes (LLMs) generar y ejecutar código de R de forma segura y estructurada. ¿Te lo vas a perder? www.meetup.com/es-es/grupo-...

Absolutamente extRaordinaRia, impRescindible, presentación de Carlos Ortega sobre uso (y abuso) de #InteligenciaArtificial para hacer *de principio a (casi) fin* un proyecto de análisis de datos. Ejemplo real, Carlos lo hizo en vivo: vimeo.com/1132497758?f...

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