Miscellaneous Projects & Associated Files

ASPES: R implementation of practice exercise demonstrating Harvill and Moulton's Analysis of Symmetrically Predicted Endogenous Subgroups (ASPES)
courant_currency: [incomplete] This project aims to create a simple application for international travelers to be able to get an intuitive understanding of strange "Monopoly" currencies they'll encounter by mapping the currency to a reference set (at current exchange rates).
econ_journal_index: Inspired by Frank Diebold to generate a new metric for journal primacy, this project contains code to create a "Citation Signature Plot" for several commonly understood "top" economics journals.
home_runs: All-Time Home Run Leaders, by Season: Using Lahman data, calculate who the top 10 home run hitters were in every year, and the trajectories of each member to their current total.
- home_run_leaders.R - GIF version
- app.R - shiny version, deployed here
social_security_names: Relative Frequency of the 676 first/last name initial pairs, as pulled from the 80 million names in the Social Security Death Index Master File.
- social_security_initials.R - Extract from raw data to initial-by-year and initial-level aggregated counts
- app.r - shiny version, deployed here
- social_security_tabulated.csv - Aggregated data, counts by initial pair
- social_security_tabulated_by_year.csv - Aggregated data, counts by initial pair by year

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