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Plotting binned regression estimates in R

R
visualization

A quick guide to extracting and plotting coefficient estimates from binned regressions using fixest

Nov 27, 2025
Patrick Baylis

Response functions with fixed effects

R
econometrics

Using fixest + marginaleffects to plot response functions with fixed effects

Sep 25, 2025
Patrick Baylis

New dataset: Daily average online sentiment by county

data

Releasing a dataset used in several of my papers

Feb 22, 2025
Patrick Baylis

Nicer LaTeX tables in R

R
latex

A 2024 update on how to streamline making better-looking LaTeX tables in R

Apr 6, 2024
Patrick Baylis

Welcome to Quarto

writing
coding

It’s Quarto’s world, we’re all just living in it

Dec 11, 2022
Patrick Baylis
 

Datasets for environmental economics

data

A (work-in-progress) catalog of datasets relevant to environmental economics research

May 13, 2022
Patrick Baylis
 

Productivity and the work habits that work (for me)

productivity

Thoughts on productivity, habits, and tools to (try to) do good work while not burning out.

Feb 9, 2022

Pop-weighted averages from rasters

R
programming
spatial

A tutorial on computing population-weighted county averages from PRISM weather data using exactextractr in R

Aug 15, 2021
Patrick Baylis

Making better tables

analysis

A guide to making better data summary and regression tables in R and LaTeX

May 30, 2021
Patrick Baylis

The magic of downsampling

raster
maps
R

Efficiently plotting very high-resolution raster data with ggplot2 using terra and downsampling techniques

Mar 13, 2021
Patrick Baylis

This map is on fire

wildfire
maps
R

Visualizing how well Wildfire Hazard Potential maps predict actual wildfires using sf and raster in R

Jan 31, 2021
Patrick Baylis

Partial predictions

R
econometrics
prediction

Generating predictions and standard errors for response functions with fixed effects models

Jan 22, 2021
Patrick Baylis
 

How I’m remote teaching a big class this fall

teaching
pedagogy

Strategies for teaching a large environmental economics course remotely during COVID-19

Aug 21, 2020
Patrick Baylis

Overlaying a raster and shapefile

R
spatial

A quick example of how to plot a raster and shapefile overlay in R

Jul 3, 2020
Patrick Baylis
 

Notes on sourdough

food
sourdough

Tips and tricks for baking sourdough bread, from starter to finished loaf

Apr 12, 2020
Patrick Baylis

How to plot a specification curve

R
visualization
econometrics

A simple tidyverse approach to creating specification curves for sensitivity analysis

Feb 28, 2020
Patrick Baylis
 

Scoring texts for the presence of phrases

R
text-analysis
programming

Comparing methods for efficiently detecting keywords in large text corpora

Dec 5, 2019
Patrick Baylis

Generating regression tables in R

R
tables
LaTeX

A workflow for creating flexible regression tables using stargazer and custom formatting

Nov 25, 2019
Patrick Baylis
 

FD vs FE and new tidyr commands

R
econometrics

Demonstrating the numerical equivalence of first differences and fixed effects for two periods using tidyr

Nov 5, 2019
Patrick Baylis
 

Making regressions purrr

R
econometrics
programming

Using purrr and baylisR to systematically run and organize multiple regression specifications

Jun 11, 2019
Patrick Baylis
 

A list of gists

reference
code-snippets
github

Curated collection of code snippets and gists organized by language

May 16, 2019
Patrick Baylis
 

Things I forget: install git lfs and initialize in repo

git
version-control
tools

Installation and usage guide for Git Large File Storage

Dec 19, 2018
Patrick Baylis

Automatically size beamer images and tables

LaTeX
beamer
presentations

LaTeX commands for automatically scaling figures and tables in beamer presentations

Oct 11, 2018
Patrick Baylis
 

Things I forget: readr shortcuts

R
data-import
reference

Single-character shortcuts for readr column type specifications

Oct 8, 2018
Patrick Baylis
 

Debugging in R, RStudio

R
debugging
productivity

Strategies for effective debugging in RStudio’s interactive environment

Sep 14, 2018
Patrick Baylis
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