"... Quantitative Writing ..."

For my econ blog I want to evaluate the fall in GDP that may follow from increased unemployment due to parts of the economy shutting down in response to the pandemic. A well-known link between unemployment and GDP is "Okun's law"; Google led me to an impressively useful PDF by Miles B. Cahill, on working out Okun's law in a spreadsheet.

I looked up Cahill and on his home page found a link to Teaching with Spreadsheets. Well, I had to go there! The link leads to several related pages. I want to look through it all.

In addition, the sidebar contains several links I couldn't resist visiting, including

• Quantitative Writing
  

  'A good quantitative writing assignment engages students with an open-ended, ambiguous, data-rich problem requiring the thinker to understand principles and concepts rather than simply applying formulae. Assignments ask students to produce a claim with supporting reasons and evidence rather than "the answer" ...'

• Examples
  Examples include updated versions of Cahill's PDF, "Exploring Easter Island Economics with Excel", and "What would GDP have been in 2009 if growth didn't slow down in the 1970s?"
  
  
• and References
  Not all the references have links, but some do, including Melanie Dawson's Peer Editing Guide which might well make a handy self-editing guide.
  

I sure don't want to misplace these links!

"How to Edit Your Own Writing"

How to Edit Your Own Writing at the New York Times.