“Some people get excited when a celebrity reveals intimate personal details on twitter, or when a pundit remarks on major political events. For me, those sweet 93 characters — representing “technocracy-at-its-best” — qualify as top tweet of the year.”

“CBO’s move is pretty landmark. This is the first time (to my knowledge) that a major policy agency has published both the data and code behind some of its key policy reports. As I’ve written in past, this is a major step in the fight against “alternative facts”. It’s a step toward directly connecting research with policy. And by making policy analysis more reproducible, it can increase the efficiency of producing future policy reports.”

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