Visualizing GTAP in Julia
October 03, 2025
I’ve spent the past week working on a package to load GTAP data from the provided HAR files. The good news is that I have working code to load the data into a Julia DataFrame. The bad news is that it will take a little more time to clean it up and make it user-friendly. Read more
Julia Developing Tips
September 26, 2025
Julia has many features that make developing packager easier, compared to Python or R. However, new comers to the language often miss out on some of these features. Here are some tips that I have found useful when developing packages in Julia. Read more
A Few Examples of Dynamic Calibration
September 19, 2025
This week was the MPSGE Monthly seminar, I presented a few examples calibrating a dynamic CGE model. I’ll use this blog post to share a few Julia specific tips and tricks I used in the process. The repository is available on GitHub. Read more
Exploring the WiNDC Data
September 12, 2025
Today I want to share a few visualizations I’ve created using the basic WiNDC national data. The goal is to provide some insights into the data, see exactly what the economy is doing and how WiNDC reflects that. My code is available on my GitHub. Read more
Comparing Annual GDP by State data to Summary data
September 05, 2025
Every year the BEA releases the SAGDP dataset which provides state-level data on a range of categories. We use five of these tables in our state-level disaggregation process. Today I am going to compare one of these tables, Compensation of Employees, to the national level summary data. Read more