Olivier Simard-Casanova

Olivier
Simard-Casanova

Independent economist, data scientist, and science popularizer

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Course “Getting started with R for busy people” has a new home9 November 2023
I also slightly rewrote many lessons of the course
#1 – How to plot functions with ggplot224 October 2023
geom_function() and as_function() offer an elegant and powerful solution to plot mathematical functions with ggplot2
Katalin Karikó, status in academia and lost scientific discoveries3 October 2023
The status game in academia probably comes at a significant social cost
New sessions for Getting started with R for busy people are open2 October 2023
Book your seat for the online workshop now
A hike at the Rudemont1 October 2023
The Rudemont is a calcareous grassland that provides great views of the Moselle valley
All in One SEO is a plugin to avoid16 September 2023
All in One SEO is not a plugin that can be trusted
How to properly import an email list from a CSV file in MailPoet5 September 2023
Beware of how dates are formatted in your CSV
#1 – The most watched economics seminar in history?22 August 2023
A lot of people watched Florian Ederer’s presentation of his joint working paper on EJMR
What to make of the decreasing engagement metrics of Threads?15 July 2023
Calling Threads already dead is premature
Stage Manager is not there yet15 July 2023
Despite substantial progress, Stage Manager is still hard to use on iPadOS
Threads, Meta’s answer to Twitter, is out1 July 2023
The launch of Threads is close to an industrial disaster for Twitter
Twitter has effectively become a fully walled garden30 June 2023
The move is unilateral, and further degrades the usefulness of Twitter for content creators
I am back!2 June 2023
After a long and unwanted hiatus, I am excited to relaunch my economics newsletter
At long last, my newsletter!17 November 2021
Launching this newsletter is both the scariest and the most exciting thing of my career in economics