Accessing Big Data
Business models and incentives
In a new OECD Statistics Working Paper, titled Access to New Data Sources for Statistics, we examine legal requirements and business incentives to obtain agreement on private data access,
Global Statistical Literacy
What we can learn from national newspapers
In his Synthesis Report on the Post-2015 Agenda “The Road to Dignity by 2030”, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a transformative agenda and stressed that “the world must acquire a new data literacy
Matching Algorithms
Algorithms for matching problems
R package matchingMarkets contains code for algorithms to find stable matchings in the three most common matching problems: stable roommates, college admissions, and house allocation.
Global Aid Flows
Visualising aid flows on development data
As the global development community promotes the concept of a Data Revolution, we are once again taking stock of what resources are being directed to statistical systems.
Matching Markets II
Causal inference from endogenous groups
This post builds on my previous post on sorting bias in endogenous groups to ilustrate a method to draw causal inference from endogenously formed groups.
Matching Markets
Sorting bias in endogenous groups
Ever worked with grouped data where group membership wasn’t random? Did you correct for endogeneous matching? Here’s why you should.
Interactive Charts
Open-source data visualisations
I'm sharing some inspiring visualisations I explored with workshop participants at a datavis workshop in Ghana this week. They provide an overview of popular software packages for interactive graphs.