Data Policy Analyst
Posts about data analysis
recent posts
- Using the Media Cloud API to Query and Construct Country-Level Datasets
- Building a Clean Macroeconomic Panel from the IMF World Economic Outlook Database
- Where Are Population and Racial Groups Concentrated in Washington, D.C.?
- Constructing ISO Country List along with ISO2, ISO3, and Continents
- Impact of South Korea’s Tobacco Tax Increase: Short-Term Gains and Long-Term Challenges
Category: Data Archive
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In today’s data-driven media landscape, understanding how news and public discourse evolve across time and geography has become critical for researchers, journalists, and policymakers. Media Cloud, an open-source platform developed by the MIT Center for Civic Media and Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, offers a powerful way to explore such questions through structured media data. Its…
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One of the most valuable datasets for macroeconomic analysis is the IMF World Economic Outlook. In this post, we’ll explore some code solutions to prepare and clean the WEO dataset, transforming it into a panel-ready structure that’s perfect for econometric studies or policy analysis. Stay tuned as we delve into the steps needed to get…
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About a year ago, I decided to dive into learning spatial analysis software, specifically ArcGIS. While I was practicing, I took a look at demographic data for Washington, D.C. In this post, I’m going to share what I found out about how the population is spread across D.C. and where different racial and ethnic groups…
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You may download the complete list of countries from the below link. When conducting visualizations or analyses utilizing country panel data, the initial step involves merging data from various sources. Nonetheless, instances may arise where these sources present differing standardized names for countries. To address this challenge, this post focuses on the creation of a…
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This post reviews the paper “Is the Smoking Reduction Effect of the Tobacco Consumption Tax Temporary?” (https://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE11044324). The study looks at the short-term and long-term effects of South Korea’s tobacco tax increase on January 1, 2015, which raised cigarette prices by 80%. While research shows that tobacco taxes reduce smoking rates in the short term,…
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The purpose of this post is to introduce WB API, which serves as a powerful tool for developers and data analysts alike. It provides a comprehensive framework for accessing a vast array of socio-economic indicators. In this guide, we will delve into the steps required to start with the API, beginning from the initial searching…