Blog

 

Hello, Quarto

media
Finally migrating from Jekyll
Jan 6, 2025
Grant McDermott

 

DuckDB + Polars workshop

R
Python
SQL
data science
workshops
Big data backends for R and Python
Apr 10, 2024
Grant McDermott

Fast geospatial tasks with data.table, geos & co.

R
geospatial
data science
Use all your favourites
Jan 14, 2022
Grant McDermott

 

Simulations remix: Turn up the base

R
econometrics
data science
Faster still, with base R.
Jul 8, 2021
Grant McDermott

Efficient simulations in R

R
econometrics
data science
Better, faster, stronger.
Jun 24, 2021
Grant McDermott

A better way to adjust your standard errors

R
Stata
econometrics
On the fly, for the win.
Oct 19, 2020
Grant McDermott

Even more reshape benchmarks

data science
R
Stata
Julia
Python
Giving the people what they want
Jul 2, 2020
Grant McDermott

Reshape benchmarks

R
Stata
data science
Going wide to long with sparse data
Jun 30, 2020
Grant McDermott

Marginal effects and interaction terms

econometrics
R
Quickly get the full marginal effect of interaction terms in R (and other software)
Dec 16, 2019
Grant McDermott

 

QuackChat slides

fisheries
talks
If it talks like a duck…
Sep 13, 2018
Grant McDermott

 

Some recent radio interviews

media
fisheries
Yes I have an accent
Sep 10, 2018
Grant McDermott

The Blue Paradox published in PNAS

research
fisheries
reproducibility
Fishers go all in while the going’s good
Aug 29, 2018
Grant McDermott

Bycatch paper published in Science

research
fisheries
R
reproducibility
Reforming global fisheries has important collateral benefits
Mar 16, 2018
Grant McDermott

 

Intro to Global Fishing Watch and Google Earth Engine

workshops
cloud
geospatial
fisheries
climate
My slides from AERE2017
Jul 6, 2017
Grant McDermott

 

RStudio Server on Google Compute Engine

data science
R
cloud
Say hello to cloud computing
May 30, 2017
Grant McDermott

 

Quick thoughts on Brexit

economics
media
trade
currencies
How relevant is the Norwegian experience?
Jun 24, 2016
Grant McDermott

 

Do weak currencies lead to trade deficits?

economics
energy
media
trade
Spoiler: Correlation != causation
May 1, 2016
Grant McDermott

 

Centralised versus decentralised

energy
media
What is the energy future of sub-Saharan Africa?
Jun 17, 2015
Grant McDermott

Climate capers at Cato

climate
Dodgy statistics at the Cato Institute
Dec 30, 2014
Grant McDermott
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