Colt Jensen

@coltjensen
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Public Administration PhD candidate @ the University of Georgia
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Websitehttps://colt-jensen.github.io
And here it is! A detailed, gently didactic guide to working with GIS-related data with #rstats and {sf} using shapefiles of Middle Earth! Make fancy maps! Put Middle Earth in the US or Europe! #dataviz #gis #sf #tolkien https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/04/26/middle-earth-mapping-sf-r-gis/
Making Middle Earth maps with R | Andrew Heiss

Explore Tolkienโ€™s Middle Earth with R-based GIS tools, including {ggplot2} and {sf}

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Also we're spending the bulk of the first day (today!) going over "How To Grad School"-related topics (see https://compasp23.classes.andrewheiss.com/class/01-class.html) and reading, annotating, and discussing a couple articles all together, which should hopefully be neat and helpful
Comparative Public Administration - Introduction, historical development of public administration and management, and recent critiques

Explore how the public and nonprofit sectors work around the world and learn how political institutions shape government and civil society

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As some of you have already gathered, the first issue of the Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration is now published! Go read issue one here: https://jsepajournal.org/index.php/jsepa

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/JSEPAJOURNAL/status/1610705734647566337

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration

The Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration (JSEPA) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal sponsored by the Section on Democracy and Social Justice of the American Society for Public Administration

However, some of the coastal counties in Maine as well as some counties around Columbus seem to have fairly high levels of agriculture.

The rural counties in Ohio closer to West Virginia also appear to be less agrarian than those counties that are closer to Indiana.

On the whole, there does not appear to be a clear pattern that indicates that most rural areas are those most heavily engaged in agriculture. /2

#publicadministration #publicadmin #localgov

I have been thinking a lot about what makes a local government #rural

Q1: "Do rural governments disproportionately deal with agricultural land ownership?"

The maps below use data from the Census Bureau and the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture.

Some aspects of these maps are not particularly surprising (e.g. the Cleveland Metro area does not have much agricultural land ownership). /1

DAGs, Golems, and Owls: Statistical Rethinking 2023 Lecture 1 (of 20). No hard work in this introductory lecture, just a conceptual outline and some dank memes. Lecture 2 later this week introduces Bayesian inference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnMWdICdRs&list=PLDcUM9US4XdPz-KxHM4XHt7uUVGWWVSus&index=1
Statistical Rethinking 2023 - 01 - The Golem of Prague

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I've been using this #tool for years, but I think more people should know about it.

It makes it easy to find a #LaTeX symbol in a few seconds!

#TeXLaTeX

๐Ÿ”— https://detexify.kirelabs.org

Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition

An approach to simplify finding LaTeX symbols.

Paper by Abadie, @susanathey, Imbens, and Wooldridge on clustered standard errors finally published https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/138/1/1/6750017
When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?*

Abstract. Clustered standard errors, with clusters defined by factors such as geography, are widespread in empirical research in economics and many other discip

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*Klaus* (2019; Netflix) remains absolutely delightful

R users: need Current Population Survey data at your fingertips?

Try the epiextractr package, an easy interface to the @epi CPS extracts

https://economic.github.io/epiextractr/

#rstats #microdata #cps

Tools to use Economic Policy Institute Microdata Extracts

Tools to download and load the EPI microdata extracts from microdata.epi.org.