Case Studies — One-Page Summaries
Case Studies — One-Page Summaries
The book references several case studies as it goes. Their full data, code, and documentation live in the case-studies/ directory of the repository. This page collects one-paragraph orientation summaries.
World Values Survey (VWS)
A long-running cross-country survey of values and beliefs. Used in Chapters 5–8 to practise documentation, joins, and reports on a real, gnarly dataset.
Austrian Hotels (austria-hotels)
A simulated hotels-and-prices dataset, designed to be just messy enough. Used in Chapter 14 as the first agentic-CLI playground.
Football Manager Interviews (interviews)
Post-game press-conference transcripts. Used in Chapters 20–21 for the text-as-data part.
US Earnings — CPS (earnings)
A clean monthly file from the US Current Population Survey. Used in Chapter 16 for the end-to-end data-to-PDF report.
Employee Commits (employee_commits)
A small synthetic HR-and-git-history panel, useful for joins and panel methods.
Common Support — R (common-support-r)
An R-only example for matching and overlap diagnostics; supplementary to the research-methods part.
For the README and dictionaries of each, follow the links in the repository.