Potpourri: Statistics #53

– Why so much hate against propensity score matching?
– R for Political Data
– Data Science Foundations: Know your data. Really, really, know it
– P-values 101: An attempt at an intuitive but mathematically correct explanation
– Merging Comparative Manifesto Project and ParlGov cabinet composition data at the party-level
– Choropleth maps with R – the Belgian edition
– Web Data Scraping
– Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable
– Chidi’s budget and utility: doing algebra and calculus with R and yacas
– FR2E: Intro to R Using Afrobarometer Data
– The New Heuristics
– You Need to Start Branding Your Graphs. Here’s How, with ggplot!

R Screencast Tutorials (from Quantitative Social Science Data with R: An Introduction):
– Introduction to R and R Studio
– Finding Data
– Data Management
– Variables & Manipulation
– Univariate & Descriptive Statistics
– Visualising Data
– Hypothesis Testing
– Bivariate Analysis
– Linear Regression & Model Building
– OLS Assumptions & Diagnostic Testing
– Putting it all Together