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    Noel D. Johnson

    Noel D. Johnson

    I’m a Professor of Economics at George Mason University. I’m also a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a faculty member at the Center for the Study of Public Choice.

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    Noel Johnson hiking in the mountains with his daughter

    Advice on Writing and Other Things for Students

    GIS Data Sources

    Economic History links

    • The Economic History Association

    • EH.net

    • Washington Area Economic History Seminar

    Setting up a webpage using Jekyll and Github pages (Such as this webpage)

    • Getting started

    • The minimal-mistakes theme

    Setting up Git to work with R

    • Happy Git and GitHub for the useR

    R links

    • Nick Huntington-Klein’s Resources Are Awesome

    • R for Data Science (2nd edition)

    • A Source for the new sf GIS paradigm in R

    • Melissa Dell’s notes on ggplot2

    Causal Inference

    • The Effect by Nick Huntington-Klein

    • Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham

    Text as Data

    • Text as Data by Grimmer Roberts and Stewart

    • Arthur Spirling’s Text as Data course materials

    • quanteda R package for text analysis

    Latex and Beamer Templates

    • Here is one source to get you going with LaTeX

    • Here is another one

    • And one more

    • Here are some sample Beamer slides

    My ArcGIS tutorials

    • Arc « R. But if you insist, my tutorials on basic usage of ArcGIS, can be downloaded here.

    A Website Suggested to me by Katlyn

    • An Overview of the Federal Reserve
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