Tobias Raabe

Biography

Hi, my name is Tobias. I am a data scientist and programmer living in Hamburg.

I work on topics at the intersection of economics, statistics, and computer science, like human capital or epidemiological models.

I am also interested in productivity, best practices, and automation. Therefore, I developed pytask, a workflow management system for reproducible research.

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Recent Posts

How I write tests

Here are some useful patterns for writing tests with pytest which help you to scale your test suite.

Tobias Raabe

Mar 31, 2021 3 min read python

What I have been doing lately

Here is an overview on the projects I have worked on for some time: pytask, respy, gettsim, and sid.

Tobias Raabe

Sep 30, 2020 4 min read python

Matplotlib for Publications

An explanation on how to create publication-ready figures with matplotlib.

Tobias Raabe

Aug 15, 2019 4 min read python

Numba - @vectorize and @guvectorize

An explanation for the @vectorize and @guvectorize decorators from Numba.

Tobias Raabe

Last updated on Aug 16, 2019 14 min read python

Numpy - Views vs. Copies

This article explains the difference between views and copies of a Numpy array.

Tobias Raabe

Mar 25, 2019 4 min read python

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Projects

gettsim

GETTSIM provides a depiction of the German Taxes and Transfers System that is usable in a wide array of research applications, ranging from complex dynamic programming models to detailed microsimulation studies.

pytask

A workflow management system which facilitates reproducible data analyses.

respy

A Framework for the simulation and estimation of some finite-horizon discrete choice dynamic programming models.

sid

An agent-based simulation for infectious diseases like COVID-19.

Publications

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Janoś Gabler, Tobias Raabe, Klara Röhrl, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker (2021). The Effectiveness of Testing, Vaccinations and Contact Restrictions for Containing the CoViD-19 Pandemic. In SciRep.

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