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// Requires egenmore package, which can be installed with:
// ssc install egenmore

import delimited https://covidtracking.com/api/v1/us/daily.csv, clear

gen newdate = date(strofreal(date,"%8.0f"),"YMD")
format newdate %tdCCYY-NN-DD
drop date
rename newdate date
label var date "Date"

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  BIP: 1XX
  Title: Increase maximum block size to 8MB
  Author: Eli Dourado <elidourado@gmail.com>
  Status: Draft
  Type: Standards Track
  Created: 2015-08-20

Abstract

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"Date","Question","Name","Institution","Answer","Confidence","Comment"
"Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:42pm","The Fed should wait until its preferred measure of inflation (Core PCE) is clearly rising — and not just forecast to rise — before it begins hiking interest rates.","Daron Acemoglu","MIT","Disagree","5","I am worried about misallocation of capital & the wrong type of risk-taking resulting from extended periods of very very low interest rates."
"Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:42pm","The Fed should wait until its preferred measure of inflation (Core PCE) is clearly rising — and not just forecast to rise — before it begins hiking interest rates.","Alberto Alesina","Harvard","Did Not Answer","",""
"Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:42pm","The Fed should wait until its preferred measure of inflation (Core PCE) is clearly rising — and not just forecast to rise — before it begins hiking interest rates.","Joseph Altonji","Yale","Did Not Answer","",""
"Tuesday, April 07, 2015 1:42pm","The Fed should wait until its preferred mea

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#the XML package must be installed
require(XML)
require(utils)
trim <- function (x) gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$", "", x)
isempty <- function (x) length(x)==0


doc <- htmlTreeParse("http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel")

linknodes <- xpathApply(xmlRoot(doc), "//h3[@class='surveyQuestion']/a[@href][1]")

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