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Year in Content

The year in content: 2025

Here’s all the content I consumed in 2025. The music data comes from Apple Music, the books from Goodreads, and the movies from Letterboxd.

The year in content: 2024

Here’s all the content I consumed this year. The music data comes from Apple Music, the books from Goodreads, and the movies from Letterboxd.

The year in content: 2023

Here’s all the content I consumed in 2023. The music data comes from Apple Music, the books from Goodreads, and the movies from Letterboxd.

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Places I’ve been

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travel

Here’s a list of places I’ve traveled to that I’ll hopefully keep updating. I’m probably missing a bunch of trips to Colombia but haven’t kept close tally.

Multicollinearity is a reality problem

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causality

In grad school I was introduced to the problem of “multicollinearity”. This is the idea that if your explanatory variables are “too” correlated this will create issues with…

The `juanr` package

Some datasets for teaching and poking around

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data

teaching

I maintain an R package called juanr that I use for teaching. It’s a grab-bag of 30+ datasets that I’ve collected over the years from published research, government sources…

What do controls do?

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causality

When I first learned about regression I found the use of controls mysterious. The “why” was clear: we have a situation where we want to estimate the effect of \(X\) on \(Y\)…

Working with PRIO-GRID data

Walkthrough of the PRIO-GRID data in R.

PRIO-GRID breaks up the Earth into a grid of little squares, or cells, each of which is 0.5 x 0.5 decimal degrees (roughly 50 x 50 km at the equator; you can read more about…