Resources for DSAN Students

This page contains some general resources for DSAN students, which I hope can be useful across multiple different DSAN courses and/or in your future careers! 🤩

So You’ve Decided to Learn Python…

(Opinionated) Foundations and Resources

Congratulations on starting your Python journey! You can do this, I promise, no matter your background / learning style / strengths / weaknesses / fears / hopes!

Visualizing the World Bank’s Poverty Indicators

Datasets

Here I’m just sourcing an R file which is available here. It defines a custom color palette (a pastel-based colorblindness-friendly palette I try to use across all my notes…

Jeff’s Big Bucket of Datasets for Visualization

Datasets

There are lots of datasets out there, to the point that it can be scary trawling through e.g. the (at time of writing) 1,780 datasets listed in the Data is Plural archive.…

Generating Synthetic Microdata from Aggregated Count Data

General

Before we look at how to “decompose” the macro-level OECD dataset we have into micro-level data on individual animal types, let’s motivate why we have to do all this work in…

Using LIWC for Document-Level Sentiment Analysis

Text Analysis

You can download the .txt files for positive and negative sentiment at the following links (click them to view the contents, or right click and choose “Save Link As…” to…

Establishing Global Settings for R in VSCode

Awesome student Kangheng Liu figured out the following, which will be helpful for students who use the dark (default!) theme for VSCode but find that their R plots show up…

Kangheng Liu, Jeff Jacobs

Mounting Your GU Domains Space as a Local Drive

GU Domains

You can use a Mac App called Mountain Duck to mount your GU Domains space as a disk on your local computer, so that you can upload/download/view/modify files on your GU…

Including Images in `.qmd` Files

Quarto

If you already have an image file ready to be included in your .qmd file, you can include it in a .qmd file using the following syntax: