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Creating Your First PDF with LaTeX and Atom
This tutorial will walk you through the steps of creating your first PDF with LaTeX and Atom. This guide focuses on installing LaTeX and Atom on a Mac, but since Atom is a cross-platform editor, most of the instructions should work on Windows and Linux as well. You will need about an hour to download […]
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R for Impact Evaluation: R and Stata Side-by-side
This tutorial follows the Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices, chapter 11. The data files we will use can be downloaded from here. The first part of Chapter 11 is covered in Impact Evaluation on a Budget: World Bank Data and R. Notes on Commands Stata commands are typed in lowercase, R commands […]
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Impact Evaluation on a Budget: World Bank Data and R
Introduction This entry will be the first in a series where we go through all of the Stata exercises in the World Bank’s excellent and free Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices written by S. Khandker, G. Koolwal and H. Samad in 2009. The book can be downloaded for free here. The book […]
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The Economist Illustrated: China
Illustrated by: Joel Hopler The Inspiration Economic growth: Missing the mat Illustrator’s Notes I found the initial metaphor of China’s growth targets being “more like the bar of a high jump” interesting. I thought the high jump imagery, used later in the article in the context of China giving its own economy a boost, would […]
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Google Charts and CSV Part 3: Side-by-Side Bubble Charts
Introduction If you haven’t already, go ahead and take a look at the previous two installments of this series (Easy Data Visualization with Google Charts and a CSV and More Google Charts with a CSV: Bubble Charts). Today we’re going to take the bubble chart from More Google Charts with a CSV: Bubble Charts and […]
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The Economist Illustrated: Kazakhstan
Illustrated by: Joel Hopler The Inspiration Kazakhstan’s capital: Laying the golden egg Illustrator’s Notes I initially thought it would be ironic to show a golden egg of happiness being held up by a beautiful piece of architecture to symbolize how the president of Kazakhstan is hoarding the people’s happiness. Then I re-read the part of […]
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More Google Charts with a CSV: Bubble Charts
Last time we built an interactive scatter plot. This time we’re going to turn that scatter plot into a bubble chart (see a preview of the finished product here). Start by openning up the HTML document we created last time. You can see the source here or expand the section below: Add Controls for Size […]
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The Economist Illustrated: China
Illustrated by: Joel Hopler The Inspiration Returning students: Plight of the sea turtles Illustrator’s Notes The article made it clear that the sea turtle concept is no longer working in its intended way, so I thought a skeleton of a turtle would illustrate that well. I pointed the turtle westward and labeled it with it’s […]
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Easy Data Visualization with Google Charts and a CSV
Static figures work fine for a print publication. However, when you want to present your research or collected data online, static is stale and dynamic is alive. Today we’re going to take a CSV and create a simple, but interactive, scatter plot. This tutorial assumes some basic familiarity with HTML and JavaScript. If you don’t […]
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The Economist Illustrated: China
Illustrated by: Joel Hopler The Inspiration China’s cash crunch: Bear in the China shop Illustrator’s Notes This article left me with the impression that China has potential to rebalance their economy. While the article largely focuses on bearish Chinese lending, the point is made that the Chinese government has effective controls to bring back the […]