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Projects

Public code repositories and data tools. Most of the interactive tools below are also gathered at my research hub, heterodata.org. For source material on related research, see the Research and TNSE pages.

Each project lists its website and its GitHub repository side by side — the site is the interactive explorer; the repo holds the code and data.

Heterodata

Research-Data Hub

The research-data platform that gathers the interactive data sites — Gerhard, Shaikh Data, Lewis, Leonid, Leontief and StarCruiser — alongside the affiliated standalone sites (freenic.org, volcker.org, foodberg.org, methodex.fyi, nycvisualizer.com, jjmuni.com).

Volcker

Comparative Empirical Testing of Theories of Banking — my PhD dissertation

This is my doctoral dissertation, written at The New School for Social Research under the chairmanship of Paulo dos Santos. It tests twelve traditions of banking theory against one another on a single harmonised panel of US banking data, read through Anwar Shaikh’s real-competition framework: a theory-prediction matrix of 12 theories, 38 thinkers, 100 atomic predictions and 13 formal models, run as pre-registered horse races.

The empirical base is a ten-dimension taxonomy of roughly 7,000 U.S. bank failures (1865–2026) and the bank-panel datasets behind it, anchored on a comparative refactor of Correia, Luck and Verner (2025) “Failing Banks” (QJE). That refactor is published separately as failing-banks, an R package replicating the paper (158K observations, 489 failures, 0.965 AUC).

Gerhard

U.S. Public Finance

An interactive treatment of American public finance — federal taxation, spending, deficits, debt, and the Treasury market over time. It is the interactive companion to my written work on duration and public finance, and tax-revenue cyclicality.

Shaikh Data

National Accounts Replication (ShaikhTonak)

Replication and extension of Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism (2016) empirical data and the Shaikh & Tonak Measuring the Wealth of Nations (1994) framework — productive labor, net social wage, exploitation rate.

Lewis

International Economics and the Balance of Payments

An international-economics platform covering the current account, the flow of funds, and how the rest of the world finances the United States — and who profits. It is the interactive companion to my historical balance-of-payments work.

Leonid

Soviet and Imperial-Russian Official Statistics

A corpus overview and construction roadmap for the official statistics of the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia — what the sources are, how they fit together, and how the series will be built.

Leontief

U.S. Input–Output Explorer

An interactive explorer over the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Input-Output accounts. Compute the Leontief inverse across 71 sectors and trace how demand in one industry ripples through the rest of the economy, 1997–2024.

StarCruiser

U.S. Employment and Inflation

A macroeconomic employment-and-inflation toolkit built on BLS, BEA and Federal Reserve primary data and read through a heterodox real-competition lens. It aggregates more than 1,100 registered series from FRED, BLS, BEA, Census, FDIC, NBER, OECD and the World Bank into one documented dataset.

FreeNIC

Open Banking Regulatory Data

A public Python and R package plus a server providing programmatic access to 4,965,894,572 rows of US banking regulatory data. Coverage: 217,210 institutions, 1863–2026, across 58 base tables in 21 source families, with 15 query tools. Any researcher (or AI agent) can query the consolidated data directly without writing custom adapters. The source families and their exact spans are the timeline on my home page.

Foodberg

Historical Food Price Explorer

A full-stack web application (React + FastAPI) for exploring historical food commodity prices across FAO, USDA WASDE, BLS, FRED, and World Bank data. 169,000+ records from 5 sources.

Methodex

A History of Economic Statistics

The construction-and-revision history of economic statistics — for any series, at any date, see how it was built and which governing manual was in force, with citations back to that manual.

HMDA Explore

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Dashboard

An interactive dashboard for exploring Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, 2019–2023 — slice U.S. mortgage applications and originations by geography, borrower demographics (HUD CHAS data), and lending institution. Built during my research assistantship at The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. Please allow the app a moment to spin up on first load.

NYC Visualizer

New York City Transit and Sidewalk Accessibility

A granular mapping platform over NYC Open Data and MTA realtime feeds. Two main views: a live bus map showing every MTA bus and positioned subway train in near real time, and a sidewalk explorer covering citywide sidewalk coverage and width, block-level coverage-against-population equity, a street-condition overlay, an ADA ramp-gap layer, and a per-stop accessibility index.

JJ Muni

Westchester County Open Data

An open-data platform for Westchester County, New York — demographic analysis, sidewalk infrastructure planning, transit accessibility and interactive mapping, built as a React frontend over a FastAPI backend. This is an affiliated project with its own owner rather than one of my own research sites.

Anwar Shaikh Papers

Archive at the Levy Economics Institute

Approximately 35 boxes, 77,452 pages and 532 GB of digital content of Anwar Shaikh’s working papers, correspondence, lecture notes, manuscripts, course videos and audio, and digitized VHS and cassette tapes, housed at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. I am Lead Archivist. See TNSE for context.

realecon.org

The dedicated site for Anwar Shaikh’s real economics

A public website hosting resources for heterodox and classical political economy related to Anwar Shaikh’s empirical contributions.

arcanum-workspace

AI-First Research Workspace

The home of the AI tools used across all of my research projects. Skill templates, workspace standards, and supporting infrastructure for AI-assisted empirical research.