diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md index 41337bf..6bc09dc 100644 --- a/readme.md +++ b/readme.md @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ chronologically. ## Books -> Entries are ordered chronologically +> Entries are ordered chronologically. - [Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes](https://books.google.de/books/about/Demography.html?id=xlv2H6LpNAwC), by Preston, S., Heuveline, P., & Guillot, M. (2000) - [Essential Demographic Methods](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674045576), by Wachter, K. W. (2014) @@ -42,18 +42,17 @@ chronologically. ## Education -> Learning material/courses tailored towards Computational Social -> Science +> Learning material/courses tailored for Demographic Methods. ### Online Courses and Material -> See also the [Software](#software) section for material on software tools +> See also the [Software](#software) section for material on software tools. Ordered alphabetically. -- [University of California (UC) Berkeley's formal demography workshop](https://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-center/annual-workshop-on-formal-demography/berkeley-formal-demography-workshop-2024/) -- [Monica Alexander's 2025-2026 course](https://github.com/MJAlexander/soc6708) University of Toronto, Canada -- [LSHTM course on Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis](https://open.lshtm.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=7416) - [Ernesto Amaral's 2025 course](https://www.ernestoamaral.com/soci633-25spring.html) +- [LSHTM course on Introduction to Demographic Methods and Population Analysis](https://open.lshtm.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=7416) +- [Monica Alexander's 2025-2026 course](https://github.com/MJAlexander/soc6708) University of Toronto, Canada +- [University of California (UC) Berkeley's formal demography workshop](https://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-center/annual-workshop-on-formal-demography/berkeley-formal-demography-workshop-2024/) ### Videos and Lectures @@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ chronologically. ### University Course Programs -> Bachelor, Master, PhD programs (alphabetically by country using [ISO 3166-1 alpha 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1) codes) +> Bachelor, Master, PhD programs (alphabetically by country using [ISO 3166-1 alpha 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1) codes). #### Bachelor programs @@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ chronologically. ## Selected Papers With Reproducibility Packages -> Important papers for/about the field, not specific research. Ordered chronologically. +> Papers should accompany a great reproducibility package to serve as examples. Ordered chronologically. - [Forecast accuracy hardly improves with method complexity when completing cohort fertility](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722364115) by Bohk-Ewald, C., Li, P., & Myrskylä, M. (2018) - [Reproducible materials for “APC Curvature Plots: Displaying Nonlinear Age-Period-Cohort Patterns on Lexis Plots.”](https://osf.io/5bmyz/) by Acosta, E. (2019) @@ -98,36 +97,36 @@ chronologically. ## Software -> Focus on publicly available tools, packages and software for demographic methods, preferably or only open source material +> Focus on publicly available tools, packages and software for demographic methods, preferably or only open source material. Ordered alphabetically (from second item onwards). ### R - [Awesome R](https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R) for general resources in R -- [migest: Tools for Estimating, Measuring and Working with Migration Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/migest/index.html) by Abel, G. J. (2025) -- [wcde: Download Data from the Wittgenstein Centre Human Capital Data Explorer](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wcde/index.html) by Abel, G. J., K.C, S., Potancokova, M., Reiter, C., Tamburini, A., & Yildiz, D. (2024) +- [Alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq](https://github.com/alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq) by Raalte, A. van. (2025) - [Bayesian Probabilistic Projection of International Migration](https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0415-0) by Azose, J. J., & Raftery, A. E. (2015) +- [bayesPop: Probabilistic Population Projections](https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v075.i05) by Ševčíková, H., & Raftery, A. E. (2016) - [Christiandudel/dtms [R]](https://github.com/christiandudel/dtms) by Dudel, C. (2026) -- [demography: Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demography/index.html) by Hyndman, R., Booth, H., Tickle, L., Maindonald, J., Wood, S., & R Core Team. (2025) -- [vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vital/index.html) by Hyndman, R., Tang, S., McBain, M., & O’Hara-Wild, M. (2025) -- [demogR: Analysis of Age-Structured Demographic Models](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demogR/index.html) by Jones, J. H., & Oeppen, J. (2018) -- [LexisPlotR: Plot Lexis Diagrams for Demographic Purposes](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/LexisPlotR/index.html) by Ottolinger, P., & Smilde-Becker, M. (2020) -- [Alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq](https://github.com/alysonvanraalte/LifeIneq) by Raalte, A. van. (2025) - [DemoDecomp: Decompose Demographic Functions](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoDecomp/index.html) by Riffe, T. (2024) +- [demogR: Analysis of Age-Structured Demographic Models](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demogR/index.html) by Jones, J. H., & Oeppen, J. (2018) +- [demography: Forecasting Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demography/index.html) by Hyndman, R., Booth, H., Tickle, L., Maindonald, J., Wood, S., & R Core Team. (2025) +- [DemoKin: Estimate Population Kin Distribution](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoKin/index.html) by Williams, I., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Song, X., & Hal, C. (2023) - [DemoTools](https://timriffe.github.io/DemoTools/index.html) by Riffe, T. (2025) - [HMDHFDplus: Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/HMDHFDplus/index.html) by Riffe, T., Boe, C., Hilton, J., Goldstein, J., Holzman, S., & Yoo, S. H. (2025) -- [bayesPop: Probabilistic Population Projections](https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v075.i05) by Ševčíková, H., & Raftery, A. E. (2016) -- [rsocsim: SOCSIM](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsocsim/index.html) by Theile [aut, T., cre, cph, Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Snyder, M., & Calderón-Bernal, L. P. (2026) -- [DemoKin: Estimate Population Kin Distribution](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/DemoKin/index.html) by Williams, I., Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Song, X., & Hal, C. (2023) +- [LexisPlotR: Plot Lexis Diagrams for Demographic Purposes](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/LexisPlotR/index.html) by Ottolinger, P., & Smilde-Becker, M. (2020) +- [migest: Tools for Estimating, Measuring and Working with Migration Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/migest/index.html) by Abel, G. J. (2025) - [rcbayes: Estimate Rogers-Castro Migration Age Schedules with Bayesian Models](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rcbayes/) by Yeung, J., Alexander, M., & Riffe, T. (2022) +- [rsocsim: SOCSIM](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsocsim/index.html) by Theile [aut, T., cre, cph, Alburez-Gutierrez, D., Snyder, M., & Calderón-Bernal, L. P. (2026) - [TwoTimeScales: Analysis of Event Data with Two Time Scales](https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/TwoTimeScales/index.html) by Carollo, A., Eilers, P. H. C., & Gampe, J. (2026) +- [vital: Tidy Analysis Tools for Mortality, Fertility, Migration and Population Data](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vital/index.html) by Hyndman, R., Tang, S., McBain, M., & O’Hara-Wild, M. (2025) +- [wcde: Download Data from the Wittgenstein Centre Human Capital Data Explorer](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/wcde/index.html) by Abel, G. J., K.C, S., Potancokova, M., Reiter, C., Tamburini, A., & Yildiz, D. (2024) ### Python - [Awesome Python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python) (other lists: [1](https://github.com/kirang89/pycrumbs), [2](https://github.com/svaksha/pythonidae), [3](https://github.com/trekhleb/learn-python)) for general resources in Python - [Cacrespo/pylexis](https://github.com/cacrespo/pylexis) by Crespo, C. A. (2024) -- [Solving Actuarial Math with Python](https://actuarialmath-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html) by Terence Lim - [PyCCM: cohort component based projections](https://github.com/crahal/PyCCM) +- [Solving Actuarial Math with Python](https://actuarialmath-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html) by Terence Lim ### Stata @@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ chronologically. ## Miscellaneous -> Resources that do not fit into other categories +> Resources that do not fit into other categories. - [Applied Demography Toolbox](https://applieddemogtoolbox.github.io/) and [here](https://github.com/AppliedDemogToolbox/applieddemogtoolbox.github.io) @@ -148,6 +147,8 @@ chronologically. ## Relevant Awesome Lists +> Ordered alphabetically. + - [Awesome Causality](https://github.com/napsternxg/awesome-causality) - [Awesome Community Detection](https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/awesome-community-detection) - [Awesome Computational Social Science](https://github.com/gesiscss/awesome-computational-social-science)