Notes on social science programming principles

social-science-programming.md

1. Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide, Gentzkow and Shapiro.
2. Good enough practices in scientific computing, Wilson et al.
3. Best Practices for Scientific Computing, Wilson et al.
4. Principled Data Processing, Patrick Ball.
5. The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science, Healy.
6. Avoiding technical debt in social science research, Toor.

• For background on Technical Debt: Wikipedia; D. Sculley et al., Machine Learning: The High-Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt