Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 29

4/6 When others rely on your code, you write more tests, which can benefit your (future) self. For every PyBLP version, I run ~2k tests across ~50 functions. These made it easy to broaden the scope of our papers by adding new simulations and empirical examples with confidence.

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Jeff Gortmaker · Nov 29

5/6 Having an open source package lets you show students exactly how the method works with real-time examples. I used PyBLP to teach one of @causalinf.bsky.social @kylefbutts.bsky.social's Mixtape sessions (github.com/Mixtape-Sess...), which would have been far less accessible without it.