Resources

Tools, tutorials, and references for researchers in the social sciences, some compiled by Md Johirul Islam.

Books development workers and academics should read
AdviceBooks
Getting a job in development
AdviceCareer
How to get a PhD and save the world
PhDAdvice
Bellemare blog on Missing values
EconometricsMissing Data
Best Practices When Writing Code by Dr Daniel M. Sullivan
CodingBest Practices
CEO Microdata style guide
Data Cleaning
Coding for Economists by Professor Arthur Turrell
CodingEconomics
Coding for RCT evaluations
RCTCoding
Data science for economists Regression analysis in R by Professor Grant McDermott
Data ScienceR
Data Science resources
Data Science
DIME Analytics Coding guide
World BankCoding
IFRI Data Cleaning guide
Data CleaningStata
Innovations for Poverty Action Coding Guide
Coding
IPA Data cleaning guide
Data Cleaning
IPA Missing value guide
Missing Data
Library of Statistical Techniques (LOST)
StatisticsWiki
Professor Ben Elsner's Causal Inference Course
Causal InferenceVideo
Professor Raj Chetty and Professor Greg Bruich 'Big Data Course'
Big Data
Tutorial on working with Survey
Survey Data
Datasets collection by Pietro Biroli
Data
DHS Datasets
DataHealth
Gapminder data
Data
Harvard Dataverse
DataRepository
MICS Datasets
DataHealth
Purdue University Data Sources
Data
UNICEF Datasets
DataHealth
Virginia Tech Data Sources
Data
World Bank Micro Data
Data
Applied Economics with R by Professor Hans H. Sievertsen
REconomics
Causal Inference: The Mixtape
Causal InferenceBook
Introduction to Econometrics with R
REconometrics
Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications by Kyle Butts
Statistics
Mastering 'Metrics
EconometricsBook
Microeconometrics Using Stata
StataEconometrics
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
EconometricsBook
Non-traditional Diff-in-Diff by Kyle Butts
EconometricsDiD
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality
Causal InferenceBook
CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network)
WritingLatex
Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
ToolLatex
Overleaf
WritingLatex
TeX Stack Exchange
ForumLatex
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List 1
ReferenceLatex
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List 2
ReferenceLatex
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2ε
GuideLatex
FAQs on PhD applicants by Chris Blattman
PhDAdvice
Gradschool Spreadsheet by Alvin
PhDTools
PhD Guide by We Econ Pol
PhDGuide
PhD memo by Alvin
PhDAdvice
NBER Predoc and RA listings
Jobs
Pre-doctoral and Research Assistant Positions WEP
Jobs
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship with Opportunity Insights
Jobs
Tips for RA's
Advice
What is a predoctoral research assistantship?
Advice
Women in Econ Policy Jobs
Jobs
Animated plot in R
RVisualization
CRAN
R
Data Visualization with R
RVisualization
Data Visualization: A practical introduction
RVisualization
R for Data Science
R
R Programming for Data Science
R
R-Bloggers
R
Introduction to Stata basics
Stata
IPA STATA Trainings
Stata
Learning Stata for econ research
Stata
Princeton STATA Tutorials
Stata
STATA Guide by Naqvi
Stata
STATA List
StataForum
StataCorp YouTube Channel
StataVideo
UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education
Stata
A guide to switch from STATA to R
RStata
How to Switch Your Workflow from Stata to R
RStata
R and Stata Equivalence
RStata
R and Stata: Data
RStata

Also check out my Reading List for book recommendations.