Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@alexhanna

alexhanna/social-science-programming.md

Last active May 15, 2025 00:45
Show Gist options
  • Save alexhanna/d6897e2e4c011b4519231c672b56099b to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save alexhanna/d6897e2e4c011b4519231c672b56099b to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP

Revisions

  1. alexhanna revised this gist Mar 4, 2019. 1 changed file with 7 additions and 14 deletions.
    21 changes: 7 additions & 14 deletions social-science-programming.md
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
    1. **Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide** by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro.
    - https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.pdf
    2. **Good enough practices in scientific computing** by Greg Wilson et al.
    - http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510
    3. **Best Practices for Scientific Computing** by Greg Wilson et al.
    - http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745
    4. **Principled Data Processing** by Patrick Ball.
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI
    5. **The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science** by Kieran Healy.
    - http://plain-text.co/
    6. **Avoiding technical debt in social science research** by Skye Toor.
    - https://medium.com/pew-research-center-decoded/avoiding-technical-debt-in-social-science-research-54618194790a
    - For background on Technical Debt: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt)
    - D. Sculley et al., [Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt](https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43146)
    1. **[Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide](https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.pdf)**, Gentzkow and Shapiro.
    2. **[Good enough practices in scientific computing](http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510)**, Wilson et al.
    3. **[Best Practices for Scientific Computing](http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745 )**, Wilson et al.
    4. **[Principled Data Processing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI)**, Patrick Ball.
    5. **[The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science](http://plain-text.co/)**, Healy.
    6. **[Avoiding technical debt in social science research](https://medium.com/pew-research-center-decoded/avoiding-technical-debt-in-social-science-research-54618194790a)**, Toor.
    - For background on Technical Debt: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt); D. Sculley et al., [Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt](https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43146)
  2. alexhanna revised this gist Mar 4, 2019. 1 changed file with 5 additions and 1 deletion.
    6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion social-science-programming.md
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -7,4 +7,8 @@
    4. **Principled Data Processing** by Patrick Ball.
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI
    5. **The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science** by Kieran Healy.
    - http://plain-text.co/
    - http://plain-text.co/
    6. **Avoiding technical debt in social science research** by Skye Toor.
    - https://medium.com/pew-research-center-decoded/avoiding-technical-debt-in-social-science-research-54618194790a
    - For background on Technical Debt: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt)
    - D. Sculley et al., [Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt](https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43146)
  3. alexhanna revised this gist Sep 7, 2017. 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
    6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions social-science-programming.md
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -4,5 +4,7 @@
    - http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510
    3. **Best Practices for Scientific Computing** by Greg Wilson et al.
    - http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745
    4. **Principled Data Processing** by Patrick Ball
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI
    4. **Principled Data Processing** by Patrick Ball.
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI
    5. **The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science** by Kieran Healy.
    - http://plain-text.co/
  4. alexhanna created this gist Sep 7, 2017.
    8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions social-science-programming.md
    View file
    Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
    @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
    1. **Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide** by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro.
    - https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/CodeAndData.pdf
    2. **Good enough practices in scientific computing** by Greg Wilson et al.
    - http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005510
    3. **Best Practices for Scientific Computing** by Greg Wilson et al.
    - http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001745
    4. **Principled Data Processing** by Patrick Ball
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSunU9GQdcI