Steve Lawford

 

 

Question and answer sites

• Math Overflow (mathematics)
• Stack Overflow (programming)
• Stack Exchange (mathematics)
• Stack Exchange (statistics)
  • On Python for statistics

Programming problems

• Project Euler

Research blogs

• Aviation economics blog (public)
• Productivity project group (private)

Student projects

• ENAC and TSE

Papers

• ENAC reading group papers
• Airline-related research papers

Photos

• Photos from the Modelling and Measuring Energy Risk Conference, Lisbon [Conference Program]
• Photos of Paul Bekker's boat (an interesting place to do econometrics!), Groningen

Economics departments

• MIT

Professional associations

• American Economic Association
• Econometric Society

Data sources

• FRED [FRED review]
• MIT Airline Data Project
• TranStats

Useful freeware

• Python (programming)
• R (statistical computing)
• MiKTeX (typesetting)
• WinEdt (TeX front-end)
• Gadwin PrintScreen (screen capture)
• ButtonGenerator (webpage button creator)
• VLC media player (audio / video, includes .flac)
• pdftk (pdf file manipulation)
• Dropbox (online file backup)
• Doodle (meeting planning)
• Google documents (online surveys, documents)

Econometric links and resources

• Econometric links (excellent site maintained by Marius Ooms)

Mathematical / economics links and resources

• ArXiV (e-print archive)
• RePEc working paper repository
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• ScienceDirect (e-print archive)

• Ariel Rubinstein's homepage [and International Café Guide]

• Terence Tao's mathematical blog (UCLA)
• Tim Gowers' mathematical blog (Cambridge)
• Freakonomics blog (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
• The Conscience of a Liberal blog (Paul Krugman, New York Times)

• Lecture notes / graduate
• Lecture notes / all levels

Miscellaneous

• French-English dictionary
• (ENAC) APACEM
• Currency converter

Travel log / places I have visited (9.7% of the world's 206 sovereign states -- a long way to go!)

• (1) UK (England, Scotland, Wales), (2) France, (3) Andorra, (4) Monaco, (5) Belgium, (6) Netherlands, (7) Luxembourg, (8) Germany, (9) Austria, (10) Spain, (11) Portugal, (12*) Madeira, (13) Italy, (14*) Corsica, (15) Sweden, (16) Tunisia, (17) Turkey, (18) Cape Verde, (19) USA, (20) Russia, (21) Georgia, (22) Greece

• (graphic created at the maploco website)

My Erdös number : 5 (or less) [MathSciNet collaboration distance calculator]

• Paul ERDÖS (0) - Frank HARARY (1) - George STYAN (2) - Jos TEN BERGE (3) - Paul BEKKER (4) - Steve LAWFORD (5)

• Paul ERDÖS (0) - Paul DEHEUVELS (1) - John EINMAHL (2) - Jan MAGNUS (3) - Karim ABADIR (4) - Steve LAWFORD (5)

My academic ancestors [a line back to Newton, built from the Mathematics Genealogy Project]

• Steve Lawford, University of York, 2001
  └ Karim Maher Abadir, University of Oxford, 1992
     └ David Roxbee Cox, University of Leeds, 1949
        └ Henry Ellis Daniels, University of Edinburgh, 1943
           └ Alexander Craig Aitken, University of Edinburgh, 1925
              └ Edmund Taylor Whittaker, University of Cambridge, 1895
                 └ Andrew Russell Forsyth, University of Cambridge, 1881
                    └ Arthur Cayley, University of Cambridge
                       └ William Hopkins, University of Cambridge, 1830
                          └ Adam Sedgwick, University of Cambridge, 1811
                             └ Thomas Jones, University of Cambridge, 1782
                                └ Thomas Postlethwaite, University of Cambridge, 1756
                                   └ Stephen Whisson, University of Cambridge, 1742
                                      └ Walter Taylor, University of Cambridge, 1723
                                         └ Robert Smith, University of Cambridge, 1715
                                            └ Roger Cotes, University of Cambridge, 1706
                                               └ Isaac Newton, University of Cambridge, 1668