This semester I will be serving in OU COB Research Colloquium. We organize research presentations in college of business. As part of my duties I was tasked with creating posters. I considered my options and decided that creating new posters every other week was too much work. So I created a tex file that grabs... Continue Reading →
Integrating R Code in Beamer Presentations
I am preparing presentations for the upcoming R workshop. That means I have to find a way to integrate R code and results into my presentations. Now I know there are a number of ways to achieve this, but I like beamer for presentations and R for analysis. Now thanks to Knitr, I can bring... Continue Reading →
Beamer use Tikz to Highlight Certain Parts of Tables
EDIT: I CHANGED THE SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE BLOG AND THE CODE BLOCK BELOW GOT MESSED UP. ALL SLASHES ARE GONE. BEWARE I did my proposal yesterday and it went well 😀 I used beamer to prepare my slide deck and was very pleased with how easy it was to work with. R already has... Continue Reading →
Academic Profile Pages with Markdown Like Syntax
I use markdown in my analysis reports and for my research log. When I was thinking of putting up a more official looking public profile page, I found myself thinking of using markdown to create my profile page on ASU web site. While Markdown is convenient in generating HTML, it is not really suited for... Continue Reading →
PLM package is pretty decent for traditional econometric models, yet when it comes to datasets I have to deal with everyday it can be pretty inefficient. If only we had a version of within transformation that would work with multiple clustering variables... Actually, we have it in the form of felm package for R from... Continue Reading →
Writing Smell Detector for LaTeX
I have been using Linux as my main system for years. One thing I have always felt the lack of was the Word's grammar checking facilities. Especially when writing in LaTeX, I have often felt the lack of an automated system to catch the most common errors. Thanks to John Horton from MIT, now we... Continue Reading →