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most people come home from Japan thinking “I wish we had their high speed trains” or whatever.

Me? I want Japan’s approach to rating things on Google Maps. 3/5 = fine, 3.5 = pretty good, 4 = exceptional.

Instead we’ve got the American “everything is awesome” style, where <5 stars is an insult

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 15d

such great news! This is the #1 package I wish existed (in non-dormant form). Always surprised me that Posit didn’t take it over (or fund you to do it). So necessary for those of us who work in non-academic environments where Word still rules.

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 15d

@noamross.net {redoc} is coming back!? This is *extremely* exciting to me

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Sep 10

very intriguing!!

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Sep 3

for what it’s worth, whenever I use the word “horce” I mentally credit you

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 25

NO. NO! TWO SPACES BAD

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 24

Now awaiting the inevitable “you don’t understand, our country is simply so big, we have to fly so far” to which I, a person from Perth, Western Australia will reply “lol”

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 24

In These Times I am squarely focused on the big, important issues, such as: why are Americans in the pocket of Big Travel Pant

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 24

one thing I’ve learned from Online is that Americans seem weirdly obsessed with special, comfortable Travel Clothes. Just wear normal stuff, it’s fine

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 22

can you use your new power to decree that #rstats is the one language to rule them all? Ta

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 10

unfortunately this is very good

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 8

🫨🌶️

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Aug 8

FALSE

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Jul 26

I love the FT, but who is asking for Martin Wolf on the sounds of summer

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Jul 23

my favourite type of post: shows how to use public data to produce something interesting with just a few lines of R code

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jul 23

You can really do a lot. For instance, while the IMF does not have bilateral BoP data, Eurostat does. With just a few lines of code, you can get to Italy's bilateral IIP, showing both assets and liabilities. Counterpart countries partly aggregated. 2/4

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · Jul 19

a rare Kirchner post with which I have some disagreements!

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