Month: July 2019

Boris Johnson writes in The Telegraph that since we could get to the Moon, we should be able to get out of the EU: “They went to the Moon 50 years ago. Surely today we can solve the logistical issues of the Irish border”. I sympathise with the sentiment in the argument. A lot of […]

A new study, published in Science Advances, questions the validity of the Big Five personality traits outside of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) populations. I was interviewed by New Scientist in order to give my take on the implications of the study. The article is available online.

Robert Klemmensen, Michael Baggesen Klitgaard and I have a new article in the May issue of the European Political Science Review. The article is titled ‘Bailout or bust? Government evaluations in the wake of a bailout‘. Here is the abstract: Governments are often punished for negative events such as economic downturns and financial shocks. However, […]

526. Hands-on Machine Learning with R 527. The Truth About Linear Regression 528. Data Viz Book Reviews 529. Make Multi-point “dumbbell” Plots in ggplot2 530. Storyline 531. City Intelligence Data Design Guidelines 532. shinyApp(), runApp(), shinyAppDir(), and a fourth option 533. Reordering and facetting for ggplot2 534. R Docker tutorial 535. S4: a short guide […]