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Sep 20, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos; Martinez, Anoop Bindra; Cereda, Fabio Saia, 2024, "The IZA/Fable Data Consumption Indicator", https://doi.org/10.15185/iza.fable.coin, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
Fable Data obtains card payment data directly from various financial institutions across Europe. The ingested data is enriched by proprietary models from Fable Data and is then homogenised and productised to generate a single pan-European dataset that’s updated on a daily basis.... |
Jan 29, 2024 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos, 2024, "A Hands-On Machine Learning Primer for Social Scientists: Math, Algorithms and Code", https://doi.org/10.15185/mlp4ssci, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V2
Jupyter notebooks in Python which accompany the upcoming paper "A Hands-On Machine Learning Primer for Social Scientists: Math, Algorithms and Code". The paper and its code aim at enabling social scientists, who wish to do so, to add Machine Learning techniques to their research... |
Nov 7, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F., 2023, "Toll Index", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.5522.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The Toll Index (TI) is a new monthly indicator for the German business cycle and is offered by the International Data Service Center (IDSC) of IZA as a service to forecasting practitioners and policy makers alike. The TI measures the monthly transportation activity performed by h... |
Nov 5, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos, 2023, "STAU", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.9503.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
The data set contains the number of hourly STAUs reported on the website of the ADAC and scraped from the web programmatically by the author (variable name adac) and hourly search intensity for the word stau (German for Traffic Jam) in Germany as obtained from Google Trends (vari... |
Nov 3, 2023 - IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Askitas, Nikos, 2023, "Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals", https://doi.org/10.15185/izadp.10753.1, Research Data Center of IZA (IDSC), V1
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are cal... |