John Friedman

Worked on the Puerto Rican Debt Crisis (Simon Johnson)
Wrote the English guidebook to the Korean CDC's Covid-19 Playbook (Simon Johnson)
Worked on Jump-Starting America (Simon Johnson)
Worked on the Massachusetts Covid-19 response (Simon Johnson)
Participated in the Covid-19 Policy Hackathon with a paper on using machine learning to optimize radio education

Strengthening State Capacity (AER)
- Used classical machine learning and regex to clean and link extremely messy civil servant name and job strings with US census data
- Wrote custom PyQT Gui to aid in manually validating unclear matches
- Wrote a geocoding package in R that used Wikipedia for better accuracy with historical names
Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations (Econometrica)
- Scraped 5tb of federal contract data from 1997 to 2022
- Flattened the xml structure into tabular using lxml with memory optimizations
The Costs of Employment Segregation (QJE)
- Used fuzzy matching and regex techniques to link 700,000 messy job title strings extracted from federal records to the US Census
- Results surpassed the Census Linking Project, the academic gold standard, in accuracy and percent linked
A Glimpse of Freedom: Political Resistance in East Germany (AEJ)
- Made some complex graphics. Really fun to mess around with ggplot2
Bureaucratic Representation and State Responsiveness (Review of Economics & Statistics)
- Used Google Cloud Vision to convert 100,000 British Blue Book scan tables into text format
- Played around with Google's beta table OCR parsing tool

Transitioning Out of the Coronavirus Lockdown: A Framework for Evaluating Zone-Based Social Distancing

Wrote a rshiny app "Bridge" that used the World Bank API to compare past living standards to the present

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