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Resources for empirical economics in Julia

I am currently learning Julia in a graduate course. I have some previous experience with R and Stata so I already have some needs that this course does not seem to cover. Here is my collection of potentially useful Julia tools for empirical economists. This post is a reference for myself but it could be potentially useful to others. It is a living document: I will edit it when I find better resources. Feel free to suggest more resources in the comment section. Introductions to Julia Here is an  introductory example  to install Julia and get working with data quickly. Another relatively comprehensive tutorial  shows more that can be done with Julia. I am using Juno in Atom at the moment. Empirical tools 1. Preparing data A tutorial for playing with dataframes , including RegExp and renaming things. Another data munging tutorial , with extensive treatment of NA values.  Since in R, I have trouble working with large data (my RAM is probably not enough and RStudio crashe...