Wei Yang Tham

@wytham88

Econ PhD student at Ohio State; Labor economics, economics of science

Columbus, Ohio
wytham.rbind.io
Joined December 2013
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    19 Nov 2017

    made a simple geom for displaying intervals as lines. main application in mind was DiD/event study type graphs. Wondering what other econs think

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    4 hours ago

    Cool experiment by MIT mathematicians breaking spaghetti into pieces: I know what I'm doing w/ my kids tonight when I get home... [h/t my Mom -- once again demonstrating her lifelong love of learning] [Also, note that results do not extend to linguini]

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  3. Aug 19

    interesting thread on making publications more like software

    Had a fun chat with last week about how to make academic papers more useful. Often the (usefulness/effort) ratio is very low for publications. Lots of lessons to be learned from the software world! <short thread>
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    Aug 17

    This is possibly one of the most informative and useful abstracts I have ever read. People: do this!

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  5. Aug 19

    If you're not sure where to find such people, see if your school has group therapy for grad students. I joined one for ABD students and enjoy it much more than I thought I would

    A thought for those of you heading off to start grad school: You may feel the need to posture in front of your new colleagues to show how awesome you already are. Get over that impulse and find people with whom you can share feelings of how lost and overwhelmed you all will be.
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    Aug 18

    I always read the acknowledgment section in books because occasionally you find a gem. I started Radical Markets this morning and Weyl’s tribute to his marriage is too inspiring to not share...

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    Aug 16

    i wrote for about building and maintaining friendships as an adult

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  8. Aug 18

    “Understanding Social and Economic Data” (aka INFO7470) is designed to provide students a detailed overview of the US federal statistical system - sounds super useful!

    Replying to @causalinf @johnjhorton
    and have been teaching a class on these and related themes (INFO 7470) for over ten years at Cornell. They have often offered a MOOC / distance-learning version, too, that you may find useful.
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    Aug 18

    What you think grad school is like vs reality:

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    Aug 18
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    Study in groups. You accomplish a lot more working through problems together than blindly reviewing notes by yourself.

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    Aug 18
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    - exercise - collaborate on papers with grad students - better to fail on important questions than succeed in trivial ones - you’re trading off money for freedom and time. So invest in your human capital: workflow, but also coding, presenting, writing, knowing literature

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  12. Aug 18

    Talking to early grad students at our start-of-year happy hour yesterday got me thinking about what the most underrated advice for grad students is My take: - invest in workflow - get on twitter - therapy what's yours?

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    Aug 17
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    I wrote a post about how to get R help 🙂

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  14. Aug 17

    The utility of pipes was not obvious to me at first. now, I sometimes stop in the middle of my code to marvel at how quickly a series of 5 piped commands just flowed from my fingers

    Replying to @fuiud @Stata
    Define "use". I know it exists and I've used it to load data. There's also something about pipes I don't get yet..but I'm a newbie..😀
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    Aug 15

    My university roommate just reminded me that one time, in first year, I signed up to be a guinea pig in a psychology study and it was the best study ever...

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  16. Aug 17

    this is great. something that is usually subsumed under the "R/ggplot2 makes nice graphics" point is that ggplot2 makes iteration and EDA easier. the niceness of ggplot2 defaults is complementary to the analysis, not icing on the cake

    Someone asked me why I prefer R over Stata today and it made my day. 👩‍💻😍 I basically just spoke bullets from my previous presentation.
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  17. Aug 16

    very cool gif: building a plot in layers

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    Here, building up a as slowly as possible, . Incremental adjustments.
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    Aug 15
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    Then let's spread the word to our networks! Econ Job Market Candidates - in your tweets about Job Market Papers, use to make it easy for others to find.

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  19. Aug 15

    is this available in BLUE?

    The fall semester will be starting soon. Go back in style with our beta hat! Retweet this post using for a chance to win one. Winner will be randomly selected at 12:00 PM CDT on Friday, August 17.
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  20. Aug 14

    great gifs for teaching about different kinds of joins!

    Getting ready to teach dplyr joins to new users tomorrow, so naturally I productively procrastinated by getting to know the new gganimate. It is the coolest!
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    Aug 13

    Dear Twitter, I know I lack followers, but if you see this dog in the KCMO area please dm me! She is very scared, very much frightened by all things and very much in need of love by my roommates and I after her life of abuse. Thank you.

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