Welcome to right now’s dialogue of utilizing Claude Code in social sciences
I used to be attempting to think about some low hanging fruit issues to proceed as an example pedagogically with. So right now’s is known as a simple video utilizing Claude code in your venture. I attempted to think about one thing folks complain that ChatGPT can’t do effectively, and in order that, and that’s one thing with literature opinions.
However that’s not precisely what I’m doing. I imply it’s and it isn’t. It’s as a result of I’ve Claude to present me 25 seminal papers within the economics of abortion. Extra particularly, papers which has to do with regulating entry on the demand or provide facet, and which additionally may embrace many various outcomes. However then I wished it to additionally put these papers in a .bib file, in addition to discover them on-line and put them in my native listing someplace good. So it was extra like this:
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Create a .bib file of the highest 25 articles outlined as “blah blah”
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Go surfing and seize all 25 as pdfs, convey it to me, put it on a folder
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Make a latex file that then cites these 25 articles in addition to organizes them in some coherent approach
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Create a “stunning deck” telling the story of these 25 papers
And it took 50 min to try this. However a part of that was me for positive doing a deck once more, as I repeatedly hold on this video tinkering with the deck till I prefer it. However that’s a part of it — I wished the literature story boarded each visually and as a story, in a latex file, a bib and a deck. As a result of the premise of this was my very own workflow, but in addition how I take advantage of Claude code to assist me course of what I’m doing, and that’s a relentless impact to know what’s he’s carried out, in addition to use him to assist me work by assembly me with the place I’m, and the way my very own mind thinks, which is basically at all times attempting to piece collectively the narrative of some literature.
I wished a few of you to see these slides since you’ll possibly prefer to evaluate what it made. So right here is the deck. And also you’ll go inside and see them how that sausage was made.
It’s not an entire bibliography, not by a stretch. I gave it a reasonably slim activity although – it needed to be Econ papers with massive cites that have been about public coverage evaluation (together with principle papers) focusing on the demand versus the provision facet, and the place the outcomes might be actually something in any respect.
However, I believe it is a ok for me now. It provides me issues to consider, plus it did create the bib file for me which was what I wished. So, hopefully seeing that is useful.
And I’ve nice information — my good friend Caitlin Myers has agreed to be on right here as a part of a “The Odd Couple” model factor the place she and I begin an empirical venture collectively. I believe that that may be nice as a result of then we may see how Caitlin’s thoughts works, however she’d even have robust opinions about analysis issues which might be completely different from my very own and vice versa. And also you’ll get to look at me be mistaken and Caitlin proper frequently, as twice right now I swore she was mistaken and twice right now I used to be mistaken. In order that’s enjoyable, and I’m trying ahead to it.
However want me luck! By the point you see this, I can be heading again to Boston on a bus.
