Links
Economics
Research
- CiteULike - A social network based academic bibliography site.
- Google Scholar - A search engine for research papers.
- NBER Working Papers - The working paper archive of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- IDEAS - A database of research papers in economics.
Societies and Journals
On Writing and the Profession
- Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students - A short essay by John Cochrane on presenting results and writing papers.
- From Manuscript to Publication: A Brief Guide for Economists - John Creedy, Australian Economic Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, 103—113 (2006).
- The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette - Daniel S. Hamermesh, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 169—179.
- Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations by Monika Piazzesi.
Data
- Transtats - Transportation data and statistics from the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Useful Software
General
- Debian GNU/Linux - My Linux distribution of choice.
- screen - A terminal multiplexer.
- Mutt - An efficient console mail reader.
- newsbeuter - A console feed reader.
- Git - A distributed version control system.
- Markdown - A simple text-based markup language.
- Firefox nightly builds - pre-release versions of the Firefox web browser.
Emacs
- Emacs - The only editor you’ll ever need.
- AUCTeX - An excellent mode for editing LaTeX documents.
- ESS - Emacs Speaks Statistics supports R, SAS, and Stata.
- gauss-mode by Steven Berry and Ott Toomet.
- imaxima - an Emacs GUI for Maxima.
LaTeX
- TeX Live is a modern, portable LaTeX distribution.
- memoir is a nice package for writing books. The manual also contains a lot of useful information about typography.
- The LaTeX Font Catalogue is a large list of available fonts for LaTeX.
- Some LaTeX Comments on good style by the Austrailian Mathematical Society.
- LaTeXML is an excellent program for converting LaTeX documents to XHTML+MathML.
- tex2xml provides automated LaTeX to XHTML+MathML conversion online, built on LaTeXML.
Also see my LaTeX links page.
Mathematics
Free and open source software for mathematics and statistics.
- R - an environment for statistical computing and graphics.
- GNU Octave - a package for numerical computing, mostly compatible with Matlab.
- Maxima - a symbolic computer algebra system.
Websites
- MathBin.net - a paste bin with LaTeX equation rendering.
Scientific Computing
Languages and Compilers
- GFortran is the GNU open source Fortran compiler, supporting Fortran 95 fully and Fortran 2003 partially.
- R is an open source statistical analysis package.
- Perl is an excellent, very versitile scripting language.
Software Tutorials
- A Brief Guide to R for Beginners in Econometrics by Mahmood Arai.
- R by Example and R for Economists by Ajay Shah.
- Using Perl for Statistics - Giovanni Baiocchi, Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 11, No. 1 (2004).
Software Development
- Software Carpentry - lectures on software development practices for scientists and engineers.
- Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing? - The American Scientist, 2006.
Optimization
- COIN-OR - Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research.
- GNU Linear Programming Kit - A package for solving linear programming and mixed integer programming problems.
- OpenOpt - A numerical optimization framework for Python.
- Zimpl - A mathematical programming language.