That is the second in my weekly Monday collection on Codechella Madrid (Might 25-28, 2026). Final week I gave you the fundamentals.
This week I need to inform you what’s new. New materials and Claude Code stuff!
Final Monday I informed you I’d be again each week with extra about what we’re doing at Codechella this 12 months (join info right here), and I meant it. So right here I’m — a little bit extra caffeinated, a little bit extra organized, and able to inform you about two issues that I believe make this 12 months’s version meaningfully totally different from the primary two.
The difference-in-differences literature hasn’t slowed down. If something, it’s accelerated. And this 12 months’s Codechella displays that. We’re including a number of necessary subjects to the curriculum that weren’t a part of the workshop earlier than:
That’s a variety of new floor. To make it work, I’m reorganizing the talks so the fabric flows extra naturally from foundational to fashionable to frontier. However the purpose hasn’t modified: this workshop is sensible, utilized, and accessible. We assume little or no background. If what a regression is and also you’re keen to get your arms soiled with code, you’re prepared.
Right here’s the opposite huge change, and actually it could be the one which will get a few of you most excited.
I’ll be doing my replications and demonstrations utilizing Claude Code all through the workshop. Whereas we’re nonetheless attempting to determine if we need to additionally run a separate workshop on it, as a minimum I might be continuously displaying you the way to work with these new estimators by illustrating it inside Claude Code environments. The thought is subsequently that you simply discover ways to use Claude Code for utilized quantitative analysis, and up to date diff-in-diff and artificial management methodologies extra particularly, as I believe possibly studying Claude Code within the context of utilizing it for stuff you have been already planning on doing anyway (e.g., making occasion research graphs, assessments for violations of parallel developments, making stunning tables and exquisite figures!) might be one of the simplest ways most non-computer scientists are going to each study AI brokers, in addition to possibly be dropped at care about it too.
However for those who’ve been studying this Substack, I’ve been writing about how Claude Code has modified the way in which I do empirical analysis. CodeChella is the place you’ll get to see that in follow. I’ll be utilizing it repeatedly throughout the diff-in-diff and artificial management materials, which implies the workshop doubles as a hands-on introduction to AI-assisted utilized analysis.
And I believe the timing issues. AI coding brokers like Codex are arriving quick, and instruments like Claude Code are already right here. Some of the necessary expertise we will develop proper now’s verification — understanding the way to verify what these instruments produce, the way to construct habits that catch errors, and the way to construction your workflow in order that pace doesn’t come at the price of credibility. That’s a part of what I need to train. Not simply “look how briskly I can run this,” however “right here’s how I ensure that what I’m working is true.”
So CodeChella this 12 months is 2 issues without delay: the most effective workshop we’ve ever constructed on fashionable difference-in-differences and artificial management, and a real-world demonstration of the way to use Claude Code in utilized empirical analysis. I believe the mix goes to be one thing particular.
Codechella runs Might 25-28 at CUNEF Universidad in Madrid. 4 days, 9am to 5pm, with morning espresso and pastries included. Pricing:
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College students: $220
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Publish-docs: $300
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School: $500
Tickets can be found on Eventbrite right here. Should you’re a scholar or post-doc and wish a reduction code, electronic mail me at causalinf@mixtape.consulting. I would like value to be the final motive you don’t come.
Madrid in late Might is ideal. The climate, the meals, the town — it’s certainly one of my favourite locations on this planet to show. Come study with us.
I’ll be again subsequent Monday with extra.
