RESOURCES

1. Reading

1. Gentzkow & Shapiro’s Code and Data for the Social Sciences Download

2. Kieran Healy’s The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science Download

3. Read this excellent book Coding for Economists by Arthur Turrell. He talks about best coding practices and how to move to Python from STATA.

2. Online Resources

1. Working with strings of text can be messy and often involves using [regular expressions](https://www.regular-expressions.info/

2. Here’s an online tool to help you write and test regular expressions: https://regex101.com/.