Gábor Békés
@gaborbekes
Economics Associate Prof, CEU Vienna. Trade, applied IO, organisations. sites.google.com/site/bekesg Author, "Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy" (Cambridge UP) @arsenalfc fan.
"Sometimes its faster to ask for software than look for it" @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social we shall use this quote in v3.
The new government took over the propaganda TV. they replaced stream with a message apologizing for lying in the past and promising a fresh start. Pure text in html.
USA wins the world cup and Russel Crowe plays Pochettino in the biopic. #worldcup26 #usmnt
Something new on something old. cepr.org/publications... @csteinwender.bsky.social @mmatyas.bsky.social @cepr.org @ceu-economics.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social @lmu.de
As Arsenal fan, watched a bit of Toffees vs City. Just the second half to get me sleep. No luck. I mean...
This was a post back in 2024 March. hungarianmuse.substack.com/p/magyar-pet... Had a list of what expected of new leader. Then Magyar commented that he will have it in office. As PM elect he referenced it on Monday as a list he keeps.
Do you think it was easy? To kick out Orban, we min needed: 1. really bad policy x bad international environment 2. Extreme bravery of same people 3. Failure of Fidesz hacking of Tisza IT in early 25 4. Survival of indep media by donations 5. EU finally saying no 6. Random ex-Fidesz guy getting mad
So maybe you are wondering how i feel seening Magyar win after 16 years of Orbán, 8 of which uprooted my life, sent me to therapy, destroyed some friends career, tanked healthcare, and more. Randomly sobbing.
So yeah, already fourth iteration of my Data Analysis with AI course. gabors-data-analysis.com/ai-course/ All open source. I have an intro overview of AI and its use in data. gabors-data-analysis.com/courses/da-w...
Whatever is vibe coding, nice to be there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_co... arxiv.org/html/2601.15... @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social
Basically we suggest some other form of comp to devs / maintainers. Like A “Spotify for open source” model—where platforms share subscription revenue with maintainers based on usage.
Vibe coding kills open source. Our most direct title yet. @koren.mk @julianhi.nz @aaron-lohmann.bsky.social Theory paper with numbers and policy recs. First at arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 Comments welcome. @ceu-economics.bsky.social @kiel.institute
In December, @ceu-economics.bsky.social hosted the 2nd Vienna Data Analytics Jamboree, organized with Vienna Data Science Group (VDSG). 150 participants ranging from industry leaders, CEU faculty, students and alumni, and more. Nice write up. www.ceu.edu/news/2026-01...
AI policy, winter update (minor) gabors-data-analysis.com/aipolicy/ Comments welcome
Loved @andrew.heiss.phd post. This was mine. gabors-data-analysis.com/aipolicy/ Ideas for january review welcome
Since we (mostly Matyas) collected tons of data from archives. Our hunch 14ys ago was right: there is plenty. Of course I vastly underestimated the workload... The era is fascinating. Many policies. More people to join. More data. More AI. #IP-KuK, here we go. 9/N ENDS
First some info. This a joint project with @csteinwender.bsky.social of @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and our @ceu-economics.bsky.social student @mmatyas.bsky.social . (Pic is at LMU history books) Money comes from @fwf-at.bsky.social and @dfg.de . Cheers! We start in January. 3years. 2/N
How did industrial policies shape the development of Central Europe? With @csteinwender.bsky.social will study Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1870-1910! Archival data to RDD, here we come. gaborbekes.com/ipkuk/ Thanks @fwf-at.bsky.social @dfg.de @ceu-economics.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
Metrics class? From tidy tables to ML and event studies. gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star...
I believe we can teach data analysis/ econometrics with Python. From OLS to machine learning and event studies. Scripts for 42 case studies. #pyfixest for regressions. (With Stata and R to compare) Check out the revised Github.com/gabors-data-analysis/da_case_studies
Blah blah. If you'll teach undergrad or applied master #dataanalysis #methods #econometrics, with #rstats #python or #stata, have a look. gabors-data-analysis.com/getting-star.... Data. Code. Slides.
It is summer here. But some of us planning their college courses next year. In my case: applied economics and data analysis, ie more advanced classes. I revised (overhauled) my #AIpolicy. gabors-data-analysis.com/aipolicy/ Comments welcome!
All good things come in pairs. Or threes? My 3rd paper using football data. This time a labor question. draft! Comments welcome papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Michael Lewis, brilliant as always. best read of summer so far. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_I...
A "friend" is interested in recording short educational videos and is looking for advice on tech stack, both physical and software. Good basic setup. The plan is 15 min vids, mix of talking head + computer screen (text, code, graphs), recording both at once + editing. Cheers.
Womens football coming up steady. Last night, pretty large crowd following penalties. Was awesome (also, not very good as I watched them) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Doing a revision of a paper for a business journal -- i realized the intro, lit rev and theory sections ended up as repetitive and overall too long. I tried AI several ways, bc I don't like editing text. 1. Gotta try different strategies 2. Claude Opus >> ChatGPT 3o 3. Latex format can be kept.