Original work · Freely available
Methodological guides, tutorials, and articles I've written for researchers working at the intersection of economics and computation.
Collection · 3 PDFs
Practical guides for rigorous econometric work
Three complementary references covering the full workflow — from wrangling large datasets to presenting clean, credible results.
Stata for Big Data
Memory management, loops, and parallelization strategies for large administrative and survey datasets.
Quality Checklist for Panel Data
Step-by-step validation of panel datasets — balance, attrition, merges, and integrity checks.
Checklist for Regression Results
Pre-publication checklist covering specification robustness, standard errors, fixed effects, and presentation.
Series · 2 articles
Leveraging Python with Stata
A practical two-part walkthrough of the Stata–Python integration — from embedding Python inside a Stata session to driving Stata entirely from Python via the PyStata API.
Part 1
Using Python inside Stata
How to access Python from within a running Stata session to extend capabilities with custom functions, file I/O, and data manipulation.
Part 2
Using Stata from within Python
Introduces the PyStata API — a Python wrapper that lets you call Stata commands, pass data, and run parallelized workflows from a Python script or Jupyter notebook.
How it Works, Who's Doing it, and How You Can Too
An accessible entry point into quantum computing — covering qubits, superposition, and entanglement without requiring a physics background, then surveying the real-world platforms (Qiskit, Cirq, Braket) you can start using today. Published in Level Up Coding, December 2024.
An accessible video outlining the what, when, and how of the Graver Basis — a fundamental property in integer programming that quantum annealing can exploit. Prompted by Collin, produced by Google's NotebookLM. Public notebook access pending.
A practical walkthrough of constructing an OCR and NLP pipeline for digitizing handwritten historical records — drawn from real work building census transcription tools at the BYU Record Linking Lab in collaboration with FamilySearch and Harvard Business School.