Siqi Han

Resources For Graduate Students

Will keep updating if I find more relevant resources.

  • plain text productivity

    Kieran Healy

  • data cleaning and management, reproducibility

    Karl Broman

  • conceiving a project

    Khan, Shamus Rahman, and Dana Fisher. The Practice of Research: How social scientists answer their questions. Oxford University Press, 2013.

  • writing

    Jessica Calarco

    Ezra W. Zuckerman

  • career development

    John Levi Martin

  • computational social science

    resources

  • Siqi’s chosen set of tools

    • task management: orgmode in Emacs & google tasks

    • writing: MS word, scrivener or overleaf, depending on what the collaborators prefer

    • multi-language code editor: VS code

    • data analysis: python, R, or stata, depending on what the collaborators prefer

    • presentation: keynote or jupyter notebook, seldom use latex beamer (but my job talk was on a set of beamer slides)

    • literature management: devonthink3, zotero, reearch rabbit

    • distant access to office computer: teamviewer

    • cloud storage: I maintain a private synology NAS, but also use dropbox and onedrive to suit collaborators’ need

    • webpage annotation: Readwise

    • chrome addon: vimium, onetab

    • window manager: amethyst