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576. Beethoven’s assessments of his works are reliably associated with citation measures of aesthetic success (Kozbelt 2007) 577. On average, people underestimate how much other people appreciate being reached out to (Liu et al. 2022) 578. Hippocrates was the first to document that the heart is a muscle (Tsoucalas and Sgantzos 2017) 579. There is […]

Den 1. november skal der være valg til folketinget. I 2015 og 2019 kiggede jeg på, hvor lang valgkampen ville være sammenlignet med tidligere valgkampe. Denne valgkamp skal ikke være nogen undtagelse. I figuren nedenfor viser jeg hvor lang valgkampen er i år sammenlignet med tidligere år. Valgkampen vil i år være 27 dage. Det […]

1470. D’ya Like DAGs? A Survey on Structure Learning and Causal Discovery 1471. Custom Discrete Color Scales for ggplot2 1472. A New Coefficient of Correlation 1473. Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R 1474. The case for variable labels in R 1475. Fooled by beautiful data: Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social […]

I am 34 33 32 now. Here is a fun fact: I’m older than half of the world’s population. Actually, it turns out that all dogs alive when I was born are, according to Wikipedia, long gone. I am by most sensible metrics not young anymore. Maybe I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking […]

Do not repeat information in your visualisations. I repeat: Do not repeat information in your visualisations. Space is limited when you visualise data, and you need to make sure that every pixel is worth the space. If you repeat information in a figure, you are most likely using certain defaults and not repeating information consciously […]