I have a new article in Electoral Studies titled Asymmetric realignment: Immigration and right party voting. The article is co-authored with Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann. Here is the abstract: The second decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a significant ‘rightward drift’ as populists in the West scored striking electoral gains. We argue that this […]
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Assorted links #22
681. Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning 682. Great Works in Computer Science 683. The Geometry Junkyard 684. Acquisition of chess knowledge in AlphaZero 685. deep-finance: Deep Learning for Finance 686. Notes on Saudi Arabia 687. Academic urban legends 688. Interactive Vim tutorial 689. 98.css 690. What’s wrong […]
Find den rigtige funktion i R
Jeg har lavet en ny hjemmeside ved navn RStats.dk. Den eneste mulighed hjemmesiden byder på nu er, at finde den rigtige funktion til det, du står og skal lave. Konkret er der en tabel, hvor du kan søge i en beskrivelse og så se hvilken funktion og pakke, du kan bruge til at gøre det. […]
How to improve your figures #12: Make effective interrupted time series graphs
I have read a lot of studies using an interrupted time series design, e.g., studies using the ‘unexpected event during survey design‘. I have noticed that the better studies using an interrupted time series design all provide great visual presentations of the results. There are relatively easy ways to improve the visual presentation of findings […]
Quantifying performance in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
I sometimes watch Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO). I am not a fan of a specific team, but I like to watch good Counter-Strike. It is the combination of strategy and fast-paced gameplay that I find great (most likely the same reason I enjoy watching bullet chess). I have recently been interested in how to quantify […]