Visualization in Empirical Analysis: Philosophy and Practice

Publisher:孙靓Publish Date:2022-09-14Views:15

Speaker: Prof. Lian Yujun (Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University)

Commentators: Zhou Qin (Southeast University), Zhao Chi (Southeast University)

Time: 6:00p.m.-8: 00p.m.

Date: September 15, 2022

Tencent Meeting ID: 882-706-882


About Speaker:

Lian Yujun, from Quantitative Economics Teaching and Research Section, Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University, is an associate professor, and doctoral supervisor. Professor Lian Yujun is mainly engaged in the research of corporate finance and financial measurement. He has obtained full marks in the teaching evaluation for three consecutive years in the MBA corporate finance course and won the second prize of the Lingnan College Teaching Contribution Award. His research results have been published in China Economic Review, Journals of Economic Research, Management World, Economics (Quarterly), Statistical Research, etc. He has presided over and completed scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education, and the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province. The public account "Lianxianghui" founded by Professor Lian Yujun has organized and shared more than 800 tweets introducing empirical research methods, with a cumulative audience of more than 200,000 people and over 30 million readings.


Abstract:

Why visualization?

Architecture of Stata drawing commands

Histogram and density function plot: histogram, kdensity, biplot

Bin Scatter: binscatter, binscatter2

Visualization of coefficients and coefficient differences: coefplot

Visualization in causal inference

Visualization of panel data, multiple control variables, high-dimensional fixed-effects models