Hi! I'm an economist at the University of Pittsburgh studying decisions in groups with externalities. These days I'm using voter panels to study geographic public choice and laboratory experiments for coordination games. I'm also working on a few small open-source software projects.
Below are material for some of the classes that I've taught over the years at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Richmond.
First off, check out my GitHub page! There you can find code relating to the above papers, the below listed projects, and other side projects.
I use voter data in some recent work. This data pipeline generates the main geographic panel used in many current and upcoming projects, and is the product of many problems solved. I'm immensely proud of this code and the number of technical solutions that make it possible.
oTree is flexible software for running experiments in the lab and online. Here are some experiments I've written over the years, run at Iowa State University, University of Pittsburgh, and Leheigh University.
Some ideas are better understood when animated. I started using Manim animations for my students during Covid but couldn't find open source software for presenting animations live. So I wrote a simple javascript apt I use for presenting visualizable research and course material.
Some things are clearer when visualized. Animations can often go one step further. These notebooks generate animations I use regularly to present my research, as a classroom tool, and for my youtube channel.
I like giving my student's detailed feedback on their work but I don't like hard copies of my students' assignments. By the fall of 2022 I hadn't found free software with an easy interface for students to both submit their assignments and receive feedback on their phones. So I wrote a scrapy JupyterLab program to collect, grade, comment on, return, and store student assignments for the Fall 2022 semester. Students simply scan their work into a filesystem like Dropbox/Box using the mobile app and receive a unique pdf with comments and grades in a folder. This might become a javascript app someday. This has saved me hours of the boring stuff.