Topics

IDE's

Comparing text editors ^{5 mins} Set up Visual Studio Code ^{3 mins} Software Setup Overview ^{1 mins} Other Programming Languages ^{1 mins}

MATLAB

Set up MATLAB ^{1 mins}

Python

Set up Python ^{1 mins} Python Coding Style Guidelines ^{3 mins} Learn Python ^{9 mins} Install Python Packages ^{1 mins} Configuring Python for Web Scraping ^{3 mins} Configure Python virtual environments ^{3 mins}

Stata

Getting started with Stata ^{1 mins} Set up Stata ^{2 mins} Stata Coding Style Guidelines ^{4 mins} Install Stata Packages ^{1 mins}

Perl

Set up Perl ^{1 mins}

R & RStudio

Set up R and RStudio ^{4 mins} Learn R ^{2 mins} Getting started with R ^{2 mins} R Coding Style Guidelines ^{2 mins}

Document Creation

Set up LaTeX ^{2 mins} Set up TeXmacs ^{1 mins} Set up Pandoc ^{1 mins} Set up Sublime Text ^{2 mins}

Coding Practices

Principles for Good Coding ^{2 mins} Parallel Computing in R ^{6 mins}

Bash

Learn Bash Commands ^{4 mins} Set up Command Line Tools ^{3 mins} Making Path Settings Permanent ^{2 mins} Bring AI to your command line/terminal ^{6 mins}

Writing Process

Master Thesis Resource Bundle ^{1 mins} Prepare for your Master Thesis ^{7 mins} Chapter Structure of a Thesis or Academic Paper ^{11 mins} Mastering Academic Writing ^{5 mins}

Literature Review

Searching for Literature on the Web ^{2 mins}

Citations and References

Build and Maintain a Reference List ^{5 mins} Cite Efficiently in Your Academic Paper ^{4 mins}

Data and Coding Related

Coding, Workflow, and Data Management in a Research Project/Thesis ^{4 mins}

Templates

Write Your First LaTeX Document in 15 Minutes ^{1 mins} LyX for Professional Research Papers and Presentations ^{1 mins} Get Started With Our Bookdown Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Get Started With Our LaTeX Thesis Template ^{1 mins} Cheatsheet for LaTeX Math Commands ^{6 mins}

Web Scraping

Avoid Getting Blocked While Scraping ^{1 mins} Web Scraping and API Mining ^{2 mins} Scrape Dynamic Websites ^{2 mins} Scrape Static Websites ^{4 mins} Assess what Data is Available ^{4 mins} Monitor and Safeguard Your Data Quality ^{3 mins} Safeguard Legal Compliance When Scraping ^{6 mins} Calculate Sample Sizes for Web Scrapers ^{1 mins} Extract Data Using the YouTube API ^{4 mins}

API's

Extract Data From APIs ^{3 mins} Read & Write Data From APIs ^{1 mins}

Databases

Online Data Collection and Management ^{1 mins} Online Data Sources for Economists ^{1 mins}

Surveys

Creating Qualtrics Surveys and Exporting Data to R and Python ^{5 mins}

Commercial Cloud

Use AWS S3 Buckets ^{3 mins} Handle storage within your Google Cloud instance ^{3 mins} Download Data Programmatically ^{7 mins}

Surf Research Cloud

Set up SURF Research Drive and Rclone to Store Data ^{2 mins}

Databases

From CSV to SQL Databases: Matching Data Solutions to Your Needs ^{3 mins}

Long Term Archiving

Choose a Data Repository for Long-Term Storage ^{4 mins}

Getting Started

SPSS Data in R ^{9 mins} Data Preparation and Workflow Management ^{1 mins}

Import Large Datasets

Handle Large Datasets In Python ^{3 mins} Import Large Datasets Into R ^{8 mins} Practical Example with Dask ^{6 mins}

Numerical Data

Clean Numeric Data Scraped From Social Media ^{1 mins} Pandas for Data Manipulation in Python ^{13 mins}

Textual Data

Learn Regular Expressions ^{11 mins} Text Pre-processing in R ^{7 mins}

Linear Regression

Run a Regression Analysis ^{3 mins} Interaction Terms ^{15 mins} Easy Standard Error Adjustment with `estimatr` ^{3 mins} Doing Calculations with Regression Coefficients Using deltaMethod ^{2 mins} Compute Marginal Effects ^{6 mins} Fixed Effects Regression Assumptions ^{4 mins} Mediation Analysis Tutorial in R ^{12 mins} Interpreting Regression Models in R ^{10 mins} Understanding Linear Regression Summary Output in R ^{8 mins}

Reporting

Evaluate Model Assumptions ^{2 mins}

Understanding the binomial test

Chi-Squared Test

Wilcoxon test

Regression Discontinuity Designs (RDD)

Validation and Falsification Analysis for RDD ^{9 mins} Fuzzy RD Designs ^{7 mins} Fuzzy RDD in Practice ^{3 mins} Sharp RD Designs ^{6 mins} Local Randomization Approach ^{9 mins} Continuity-Based Approach ^{5 mins} Regression Discontinuity Plots ^{7 mins}

Difference in Difference

Impact evaluation: RD vs DID ^{4 mins} Synthetic Control for Impact Evaluation ^{4 mins} An Introduction to Difference-in-Difference Analysis ^{9 mins} Canonical Difference-in-Difference as a Regression ^{7 mins} Staggered Difference-in-Difference Estimation ^{8 mins}

Panel Data

An Introduction to Panel Data ^{11 mins} The Fixed Effects Model (Within Estimator) ^{5 mins} Fixed-Effects Estimation in R With the `fixest` Package ^{7 mins} The Pooled OLS Model ^{2 mins} The First-Difference Estimator ^{2 mins} The Between Estimator ^{1 mins} The Random Effects Model ^{6 mins}

Instrumental Variables

Intro to IV Estimation ^{5 mins} The Shift-Share Instrumental Variable ^{6 mins}

Matching

An Introduction to (Exact) Matching ^{8 mins} Propensity Score Matching: A Method for Approximate Matching ^{8 mins}

Machine Learning 101

In-depth Introduction to Machine Learning and R ^{1 mins} Get Introduced to Machine Learning ^{5 mins}

Supervised Machine Learning

Extreme gradient boosting with XGBoost in R ^{12 mins} Extreme Gradient Boosting with XGBoost in Python ^{4 mins} Linear Regression for Prediction in Python ^{5 mins} Introduction to Random Forests in Python ^{9 mins}

Graphs and Charts

Data Visualization Best Practices ^{9 mins} Grammar of Graphics of ggplot2 ^{8 mins} Visualizing data with Plotnine and Altair ^{2 mins} Plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn in Python ^{4 mins} Stata Graphs Made Easy ^{2 mins} Visualizing Time Series Data with ggplot2 ^{11 mins} Styling Bar Charts in ggplot2 ^{10 mins} Combining Statistical Testing and Visualization, directly in R using ggpubr and rstatix ^{8 mins} Dynamic Data Storytelling with Plotly ^{12 mins} Plot Saving in R: Techniques and Best Practices ^{8 mins}

Regression Results

Generate a coefficient plot in R with the `modelplot` function ^{6 mins} Generate regression tables in R with the `modelsummary` package ^{17 mins} Forest Plot Generation in R ^{5 mins}

R-Shiny

Shiny Fundamentals: Introduction and Building Your First Shiny App ^{10 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: The User Interface ^{10 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: Reactive Programming ^{9 mins} Shiny Fundamentals: Introduction to Shiny Modules ^{6 mins} How to: Build a Data Exploration App in Shiny ^{10 mins} How to: Integrate Plotly within Shiny for Data Storytelling ^{9 mins} How to: Create the 'perfect' plot with R Shiny ^{11 mins} Advanced Customization: The bslib and thematic packages ^{8 mins} How to create a Shiny Dashboard using Shinydashboard: A User Interface Guide ^{11 mins} Build Interactive Dashboards with R Shiny ^{5 mins}

Reporting Tables

tableFill for Reproducible Tables ^{3 mins} Make Tables and Figures Reproducible with Autofilling Values ^{1 mins} Converting Pandas DataFrames to LaTeX and Markdown Tables ^{2 mins} Create a publication-ready LaTeX regression table with `kableExtra` in R ^{8 mins} Stargazer: Exporting Publication-Ready Tables in R ^{1 mins}

Starting a New Project

Principles of Project Setup and Workflow Management ^{1 mins} Start up a new project ^{4 mins} Learn About the Various Ways to Setup a Research Infrastructure ^{5 mins}

Auditing Existing Projects

Use this Checklist to Improve Your Project's Structure and Efficiency ^{3 mins}

Make and Makefiles

Practicing Pipeline Automation using Make ^{1 mins} Use Makefiles to Manage, Automate, and Reproduce Projects ^{4 mins} Debugging Makefiles With Remake ^{6 mins} Inside AirBnB - Workflow Walkthrough ^{1 mins} Set up Make ^{2 mins} Set up Snakemake ^{1 mins}

Deployment

Configure a Self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions workflows ^{8 mins} Implement a GitHub Actions workflow for code formatting and testing ^{5 mins} Enhance Reproducibility and Automation with GitHub Actions ^{5 mins}

Task Automation

Error Handling in Stata Workflows Using R ^{3 mins} Schedule Recurring Tasks (e.g., by day, hour) ^{5 mins}

Package Management

Package Management for R: renv ^{3 mins} Manage your R Packages with Packrat ^{5 mins} How to Automatically Install R Packages Used in a Project ^{1 mins}

Cloud Computing

HPC TiU for Cloud Computing ^{2 mins} Running Computations Remotely ^{1 mins} Set up the AWS Client ^{1 mins} Configure a VM with GPUs in Google Cloud ^{7 mins} Import and run a project environment with Docker on Google Cloud ^{11 mins} Getting Started with Research Cloud ^{3 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's Cartesius Cluster ^{1 mins} Cloud Computing with SURFsara's LISA Cluster ^{1 mins} Setting Up a New Workspace, Configuring Git and Adding Research Drive on Research Cloud ^{2 mins} Run RStudio on AWS using Docker ^{5 mins} Monitor and solve memory constraints in your computational environment ^{4 mins} Use Google Colab to Run Python in the Cloud ^{1 mins}

Docker

Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability ^{6 mins} Set up Docker ^{4 mins} Import and run a project environment with Docker on Google Cloud ^{11 mins} Export a Python Environment with Docker and Share It Through Docker Hub ^{11 mins} Set up Docker ^{4 mins}

Getting Started with Git and Github

Set up Git and GitHub ^{1 mins} Get Started With Using Git and GitHub ^{9 mins} The Most Important Git Commands You Should Know ^{2 mins} The GitHub Workflow ^{7 mins} Manage Your Projects Using the GitHub Project Board ^{1 mins} Best Practices for GitHub Issues Management ^{8 mins}

Advanced Git

Restoring Timestamps in Git Repositories ^{2 mins} Exclude Files from Versioning ^{1 mins} Git Branching Strategies ^{7 mins} Best Practices for Naming Git Branches ^{2 mins} Best Practices for Git Commits ^{1 mins} Working with Large Files on GitHub ^{4 mins} Remove Sensitive or Large Files From Your Repository ^{1 mins}

Repository Lifecycle

Make Your GitHub Repository Citable using DOIs ^{1 mins} Archiving Repositories When They Are Done ^{1 mins} Export Repositories With GitHub Releases ^{1 mins}

Enhance your Research Using ChatGPT Models

Use ChatGPT for your research! ^{4 mins} GitHub Copilot in RStudio and VS Code ^{14 mins}

Transcription and Command Line Tools

Making transcriptions using OpenAI's Whisper ^{3 mins}

Big Team Science

Bring Open Science Practices to your Research Group ^{1 mins} How to Prepare for (and Follow-up On) Scrum Meetings ^{2 mins} Use Scrum In Your Team ^{5 mins}

Project Management on GitHub

Data Sharing ^{3 mins} Use Overleaf to Collaborate on Research Papers ^{1 mins} Share Large Temporary Files ^{3 mins} Use Software Environments to Ensure Replicability ^{6 mins} Set up TeamViewer ^{1 mins} Safely Store Your Credentials By Configuring Environment Variables ^{2 mins}

Engage in open source projects

Contribute to Open Source Projects ^{4 mins} Contribute to Tilburg Science Hub ^{1 mins}

Content Creation for Research

Document New Data ^{10 mins} Shoot Educational Videos ^{1 mins} Create Your Own Website in 15 Minutes ^{1 mins} Publish Ebooks and Interactive Articles Directly From R ^{1 mins} README Best Practices ^{4 mins}