Aurélien Goutsmedt
  • About Me
  • Posts
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Teaching
  • CV

Projets

Projets de recherche, paquets R et bases de données sur lesquels je travaille.

Cliquez sur un tag pour filtrer les projets.

Les projets sont présentés dans leur langue d’origine (anglais).

Projets de recherche

Network of clusters of sentences about rationality in economics by decade, grouped into themes from legislation and taxation to rationality and its limits.

Studying the History of Concepts with Embeddings

Methodological project · with Thomas Delcey

How to follow a concept through a large corpus with language-model embeddings, starting from our study of rationality in economics ("One Sentence at a Time") and aiming at reusable and documented tools.

  • Project page
Screenshot of the OEconomia journal call page: the OEconomia logo (History, Methodology, Philosophy) above the title “Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Economics”.

OEconomia permanent call: Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Methodology of Economics

Permanent call for contributions · edited with Thomas Delcey · OEconomia

An open, continuous call for papers presenting innovative uses of quantitative methods and data in the history, philosophy and methodology of economics, with a particular welcome for "data papers" and methodological papers that document how datasets are built and analysed.

  • Read the call
Black-and-white photograph of a trading screen showing several price charts and tables of market data.

The Scientific and the Political: Modelling and Forecasting the Economy in Policymaking Institutions

F.R.S.-FNRS postdoctoral project · UCLouvain (ISPOLE)

The scientific, organizational, and political issues raised by the macroeconomic forecasting models used by the European Central Bank and the European Commission.

  • Project page
Banner of the 10th ESHS Conference website: “Brussels, 7-10 September 2022”, over a photograph of the Atomium spheres.

ESHS Symposium: “The Scientization of Central Banks”

Symposium at the European Society for the History of Science · Brussels, 2022

A symposium (11 papers) on how central banks have become producers and users of scientific knowledge, organised with Francesco Sergi.

  • Symposium proposal
Screenshot of the OEconomia call for contributions: the OEconomia logo above the title “Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics”.

OEconomia special issue: Quantitative and Computational Approaches in the Social Studies of Economics

Special issue edited with François Claveau and Catherine Herfeld · OEconomia 13(2), 2023

Contributions that use quantitative and computational methods to offer insights and new stories about economics, its evolution, and its role in policymaking.

  • Introduction
  • Call for papers
Network map of macroeconomics papers around 1977–1980, coloured by community, with labelled clusters such as Business Cycles and Rational Expectations, Keynesian Economics, Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics and Public Finance.

Mapping Macroeconomics

History of Economics Society New Initiatives Fund · with Alexandre Truc

An online interactive platform displaying bibliometric data on a large set of macroeconomic articles, to support quantitative inquiries in the history of macroeconomics (1970–2020).

  • Project page
  • Platform
Illustration of cartoon vacuum cleaners with eyes sucking up papers and books around the columned facade of a central bank building.

Excavating the Academia/Policy Pipeline: Economic Analysis at the Bank of England Pre and Post-Crisis

UK ESRC, Rebuilding Macroeconomics · PI Béatrice Cherrier

Mapping the channels through which economics influences the Bank of England and how economic ideas impact (or do not impact) policy-making.

  • Project page
  • Rebuilding Macroeconomics
Aucun article correspondant

Paquets R, bases de données et tutoriels

Hexagonal logo of mintR: a plant growing from a rock pile with a pickaxe and the letters a, b, c, above the name mintR.

mintR

R package

From a collection of texts to a structural topic model that can be justified: text preparation, comparison of many candidate models, and human validation.

  • Website
  • Codeberg
Logo of Becoming Economists: a graduation cap on top of a globe.

Becoming Economists: Bibliometric Data on Economics PhDs

Database and website · with Thomas Delcey

Bibliometric data on PhD dissertations in economics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: France (Sudoc and Theses.fr), the United States and the United Kingdom, with documentation and analyses of who becomes an economist and on which topics.

  • Website
  • Data (Zenodo)
  • GitHub
Illustration of valves and pipes in a red industrial network, evoking the flow of documents being collected.

Central Banks' Documents Database

Database · scraping and cleaning scripts in R

Scripts to collect documents published by central banks and to clean them into a database of central bank documents.

  • Codeberg
  • Scraping tutorials
Hexagonal logo of anystyleR: a smiling robot with glasses reading a book labelled anystyleR.

anystyleR

R package

Find, parse and clean bibliographic references in PDF and text documents, built on the anystyle Ruby gem.

  • Website
  • Codeberg
  • Release post
Hexagonal logo of biblionetwork: an open book with a network of connected nodes above it.

biblionetwork

R package · with Alexandre Truc and François Claveau

Fast creation of bibliometric networks: bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-authorship networks, optimised for very large datasets.

  • Website
  • GitHub
Hexagonal logo of networkflow: a network of nodes funnelling downwards into a denser network, above the name NETWORKFLOW.

networkflow

R package · with Alexandre Truc

A workflow to manipulate bibliometric networks, from building the graph through detecting clusters to projecting it with ggraph.

  • Website
  • GitHub
Aucun article correspondant

© Aurélien Goutsmedt · Made with Quarto