Projects

With the stalled economic recovery, the prolonging Russo-Ukrainian war, and the ongoing negotiations with Venezuela, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, the only certainty is that we live in times of uncertainty. With my empirical analysis based on this assumption, I argue that the optimal investment strategy for the upcoming 6-12 months is to short oil.

In this project, Bohan, Zihan, and me have built together a Shiny app with interactive plots to visualize the Russo-Ukrainian war. The Russo-Ukrainian conflict has grown into a long-lasting war causing countless casualties nearly everyday.

This project shows how to download and combine climate data from the NCDC with data on bee colonies from the USDA using R.

This is a summary of my thesis research on the effects of the nineteenth-century partitions of Poland among Austria, Prussia, and Russia on contemporary socio-economic and cultural outcomes and regional disparities. By conducting an online survey targeted at a region with spatial discontinuity, I document persistent effects of the Partitions of Poland between formerly Prussian and formerly Russian regions.

This is a project that allows people to share the stories of from their lives or the lives of their relatives. The goal is to save the memories that reflect what people think, feel, observe, say, and not say, in a given place and time. The ambition of the proposed project is collect these memories into one place from which the future generations can take. This is like an encyclopedia for the kind of information a regular encyclopedia won’t tell you.