In my previous blog post I showed you how I set up my own Shiny server using a Raspberry Pi 4B. If you visited the following link you’ll be connecting to my Raspberry Pi and can play around with a Shiny app that I called golemDemo. It’s been ...

This blog post will not have any code, but will document how I went from hosting apps on shinyapps.io to hosting shiny apps on my own server, which is a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 gigs of ram. First of all, why hosting apps on a Raspberry Pi? And why ...

I’m back in business! After almost 5 months of hiatus, during which I was very busy with my new job, and new house, I’m in a position where I can write again. To celebrate my comeback, I’ll introduce to you the {tidytable} package, which I learned about this ...

A quick one today. If you work with economic data, you’ll be confronted to NACE code sooner or later. NACE stands for Nomenclature statistique des Activités économiques dans la Communauté Européenne. It’s a standard classification of economic activities. It has 4 levels, and you can learn more ...

My first encounter with Bayesian statistics was around 10 years ago, when I was doing my econometrics master’s degree. I was immediately very interested by the Bayesian approach to fit econometric models, because, when you’re reading about Bayesi...

This blog post shows how to make bar plots and area charts. It’s mostly a list of recipes, indented for myself. These are plots I have often to do in reports and would like to have the code handy somewhere. Maybe this will be helpful to some of you ...

Intro: the need for microdata, and the risk of disclosure Survey and administrative data are essential for scientific research, however accessing such datasets can be very tricky, or even impossible. In my previous job I was responsible for getting access to such “scientific micro-datasets” from institutions like Eurostat. In general, ...

In this blog post, I present a paper that has really interested me for a long time. This is part2, where I will briefly present the model of the paper, and try to play around with the data. If you haven’t, I suggest you read part 1 where I provid...