Episode 5 of the Odd Couple: Making Maps with Claude Code!

Me and Caitlin Myers are back with our trusted robot command line interface secret agent with a license to kill, Claude Code! This week we continue our live research project studying the closure of abortion clinics across Texas under House Bill 2 and its effect on county marriage certificates, or the flow of new marriages. In the previous weeks, recall Claude Code helped find, pull, store locally marriage certificates — with people’s names and selected demographics for goodness sake! — and then build a panel dataset. But Claude also helped us try to understand what was going on with these date when some irregularities were spotted. And to satisfy by seemingly endless itch, Claude also made us “beautiful decks” according to my rhetoric of decks philosophy at my MixtapeTools repository that contains skills I regularly use. And the deck had beautiful pictures in it.

This week we extend that exercise and make maps of Texas with more data as we continue pressing ahead to determine the relationship, potentially causal, of increased travel distance on the flow of people into marriage. Thanks again for tuning in. Tell your friends, family, your old second grade teacher, Ms. Lacy, your barista, the kids next door who sometimes play their music too loud about this amazing podcast with Caitlin Myers at Middlebury College, and me, Scott Cunningham, at Baylor University.

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