Coding Resources for Social Sciences

In this page, I collect useful resources for coding for researchers in social sciences. A mention goes to Maximilian Kasy that inspired me to build this page.

A quick legend:

• 📗 book
• 🌐 webpage
• 📈 charts
• 🎥 videos

Econometrics and Statistics

• 📗Bruce Hansen’s Econometrics: By far the best freely available and regularly updated resource for Econometrics

Machine Learning

• 📗The Elements of Statistical Learning: General introduction to machine learning
• 📗Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning: Extremely useful tools for nonparametric Bayesian modeling
• 📗Deep Learning: The theory and implementation of neural nets
• 📗Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms: An introduction to statistical learning theory in the tradition of Vapnik
• 📗Reinforcement Learning - An Introduction: Adaptive learning for Markov decision problems
• 📗Algorithms: Introduction to the theory of algorithms
• 🌐Tensorflow Playground: Visualisation tool for neural networks
• 🌐Artificial Intelligence: Online lectures on AI
• 🌐The Ethical Algorithm: How to impose normative constraints on ML and other algorithms

Python

• 🌐RealPython: Collection of Python tutorials, from introductory to advanced. Also contains learning paths for specific topics
• 🌐QuantEcon Python Tutorials and economic applications in Python, especially for macroeconomics
• 🌐Cheat Sheets: Collection of cheat sheets for python
• 🌐Structuring a Python project: Advanced tutorial on how to structure a Python program
• 🌐IDE Guide: Comparison of IDEs for Python. Suggested: PyCharm
• 🌐Configuring remote interpreters via SSH: How to use Python remotely via SSH via PyCharm
• 📈Visualization in Python: How to make nice graphs in Python, with a dedicated jupyter notebook
• 📈Python Graph Gallery: Graph examples in Python

Matlab

• 🌐User defined classes in Matlab: How to work with classes in Matlab
• 🌐Julyter Notebooks: How to run a jupyter notebook with Matlab kernel
• 📈Graph Tips in Matlab and link2: Suggestions on how to make pretty graphs in Matlab

Julia

• 🌐Julia Manual: Julia unfortunately lacks a big community and tutorials, but it has a very good manual
• 🌐QuantEcon Julia Tutorials and economic applications in Julia, especially for macroeconomics
• 🌐IDE Guide: Guide for IDEs for Julia. Suggested: Juno for Atom.

R

• 📗An Introduction to R: Complete introduction to base R

• 📗R for Data Science Introduction to data analysis using R, focused on the tidyverse packages

• 📗Advanced R: In depth discussion of programming in R

• 📗Hands-On Machine Learning with R: Fitting ML models in R

• 🌐Bayesian statistics using Stan and link

• 🌐RStudio Cheat Sheets for various extensions, including data processing, visualization, writing web apps, …

• 📈R Graph Gallery: Graph examples in R

• 📈Nice Graphs with code

  A collection of elaborate graphs with code in R

Others

• 📗Github Advanced: Advanced guide for version control with Github
• 🎥The Missing Semester of Your CS Education Video lectures and notes on tools for computer scientists (version control, debugging, …)
• 📈PGF plots in Latex: Gallery and examples to make plots directly in Latex
• 🌐Work remotely from server: How to setup SSH for remote computing