jack-madison,Jack Madison,github

Hi, I'm Jack

MA Economics graduate at the University of British Columbia (95% Average)
BA Honours Economics graduate from Simon Fraser University (4.16/4.33 GPA)
Previously worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Hitoshi Shigeoka and Professor Hendrik Wolff
Academic interests include: Industrial Organization, Econometrics, and Game Theory
Download my full CV (January 2023)

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Jack Madison's Projects

cycling-data

This repository contains code to retrieve bike counter and bike share trip data from various cities across North America and Europe. Currently this repository is a work in progress.

This repository contains python code to calculate dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk for a given latitude and longitude and date. These timestamps can then be used to create control variables for ambient light in econometric analysis.

evo-car-share-app-scrape

The code in this repository retrieves the location of all available EVO cars as well as the current energy level of each vehicle from the EVO Android application. EVO is a car sharing service based in Vancouver, BC.

geocode

This reposity contains the code to retrieve the latitude and longitude for a dataset of addresses. The python code utilizes the google maps geocode api in order to find the latitude and longitude of each of the addresses listed in the two included Excel files.

google-trends

This repository contains python code used to collect daily Google Trends data on specific keyword groups between 2018 and 2021. In order to rescale the data, I use the method outlined in Brodeur et al. (2021).

jack-madison

Repository for the readme on my GitHub profile page. Also contains my CV that is current as of March 2022.

jack-madison.github.io

Web page repository for jack-madison,github,io which is currently under construction.

japan-pollen-data

This repository contains code for collecting data on pollen counts in Japan from an API published by the Japanese government. The data that is retrievable through the API is currently only for 2021.

notebooks

jupyter notebooks for various classes

optimal-monetary-policy

This repository contains MATLAB code for simulating the central bank's response to either an inflation or demand shock under discretionary policy, commitment policy, or an ad-hoc Taylor rule. I also conduct each simulation under rational and naïve expectations.

tweet-data

This repository contains Python code for collecting tweets from the Twitter API using the Tweepy Python library. This repository also contains data for geocoded tweets published in Japan.

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