The Research Rundown newsletter, archived and indexed. Every post as Markdown, the recurring sections gathered into reference pages, and the methods notes as scripts. Part of OpenStacks. Status: Stable, per the family maintenance policy.
Site: varnasr.github.io/SignalStack.
| Folder | What it holds |
|---|---|
archive/ |
All 13 posts, June 2024 to September 2026, newest first, each with a link to the original. SECTIONS.md lists where each recurring section appears. |
companions/ |
Eight pages, one per recurring section: research praxis, disambiguation corner, methods corner, datasets, researchers worth following, papers and reports, books and long reads, tools and resources. Every entry links to its edition. |
tools/ |
Four Python scripts: deletion_rate.py, poverty_lines.py, odds_likelihood.py, audits.py. Standard library only. |
companions/errata.md |
Corrections to the newsletter's own text. |
The archive and the companion pages are generated by the two scripts in
scripts/. The text is the newsletter's, unedited.
Python 3.10 or later. Nothing to install; pytest for the tests.
python tools/deletion_rate.py --removed 4700000 --roll 78900000 --stage draft
python tools/poverty_lines.py --year 2023
python tools/odds_likelihood.py table 75 25 50 50
python tools/audits.py recommendation tools/examples/recommendations.json
python -m pytest tests/See tools/README.md.
python scripts/sync_substack.py
python scripts/build_companions.pyA workflow runs both on the second of each month and opens a pull request if there is anything new.
| Repository | What it is for | Language |
|---|---|---|
| InsightStack | MEL tools, calculators, research documentation, loaders for survey microdata | Stata, Python, R, SPSS |
| FieldStack | Field operations: high-frequency checks, enumerator monitoring, back-checks, sampling, weighted estimation | R |
| EquityStack | Inequality measurement and design-based survey estimation | Python |
openstacks.dev is the index. SignalStack is the newsletter's companion, beside the stacks rather than one of them. PolicyStack is superseded by PolicyDhara. RootStack, BridgeStack and ViewStack are archived.
See CITATION.cff. MIT, see LICENSE. The
newsletter text is the author's, republished here by the author.