76. Wealthier Americans have per capita footprints ∼25% higher than those of lower-income residents, primarily due to larger homes (Goldstein et al. 2020) 77. Having a baby the week before an election reduces turnout by 26 percentage points for mothers and 13 percentage points for fathers (Bhatti et al. 2019) 78. Early investments in state […]
Month: October 2020
Hvor mange vil stemme på Veganerpartiet?
Forleden kunne medierne rapportere, at Veganerpartiet har fået underskrifter nok til at stille op til folketingsvalget. Denne nyhed blev slået stort op. Ekstra Bladet gik eksempelvis – som andre medier og vanen tro – direkte til breaking news: Efterfølgende har det dog været begrænset, hvor meget vi har hørt til partiet. Ikke desto mindre er […]
The political scientist as a blogger
Ten years ago, John Sides wrote a paper titled The Political Scientist as a Blogger. Despite the fact that the internet is not the same today as it was ten years ago, it is still an interesting read. Specifically, the paper made me think about why political scientists should (not) blog in 2020, why I […]
Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters
I like data and I like books about data. Unsurprisingly, I found the book Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters interesting to read. The book is packed with fun and interesting examples of what data can and cannot tell us. For people who teach introductory statistics and are running low on examples, I […]
Confusing and misleading terms in psychology
I was reading a couple of articles with examples of terms in psychological research that are either confusing, ambiguous or misleading. The two articles are Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases (Lilienfeld et al. 2015) and 50 Differences That Make a […]
Partiernes popularitet blandt danskerne
Jeg faldt over denne nye blog, Den Lille Empiriker, der blandt andet har lavet en fin interaktiv graf over udviklingen i opbakningen til Folketingets partier: Oversigten bruger datasættet med meningsmålinger, der kan findes her. Foruden ovennævnte er der også allerede indlæg på bloggen omkring emner såsom professionelle cykelryttere og politisk polarisering i Folketinget under COVID-19.
Tidyverse resources on YouTube
I have been watching a lot of YouTube videos lately with people using tidyverse. These videos are not tutorials per se but rather demonstrations on how to wrangle and analyse data. These videos use a lot of dplyr and ggplot2 as well as packages associated with the tidyverse, e.g. tidytext. For the data, they often […]
Potpourri: Statistics #67
726. Computational Causal Inference at Netflix 727. Tools for Ex-post Survey Data Harmonization 728. How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations 729. Shiny in Production: App and Database Syncing 730. Introduction to Causal Inference 731. An Illustration of Decision Trees and Random Forests with an Application to the 2016 Trump Vote 732. […]
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I should note that I write this for nobody but myself. Don’t expect anything interesting here. Feel free to skip this one. I promise there will be another post soon. This is – as always – a personal blog. My goal with this post is not to write anything that will transcend time and be […]