Year: 2022

Three of the most popular 90s sit-coms are Frasier, Seinfeld and Friends. I have previously written individual posts about the shows (see here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will consider some of the similarities and differences between the shows. All three shows are NBC sit-coms that were part of the original Thursday […]

When people consume culture – being it news, books, podcasts, music, social media, movies, etc. – we care about the quality of culture. That is, we know that not all culture is created equal. We have high/”highbrow” culture (e.g., arthouse movies and poetry) and low/”lowbrow” culture (e.g., reality TV and Hollywood movies). It is better […]

– These are the 100 most frequent LaTeX commands – Detexify – How2LaTeX: A compact guide to help you write professional LaTeX documents – How I Make Presentations Using LaTeX & Beamer – Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code – How Coordinates Work In Tikz – l3charts: Customizable charts made with TikZ and […]

In 2017, I made a dataset with political datasets. Over the years, when I have found new datasets that might be relevant to political scientists, I have added them to the dataset and overview on GitHub. In 2017, the dataset consisted of ~150 datasets. Now it contains more than 500 datasets. The datasets cover various […]

Why do we need opinion polls? It is a good question. We need air to breathe, but we do not need opinion polls, right? While I believe it is a fair question, I also believe it is often misguided or misleading to say that opinion polls are unnecessary. The reason being that we tend to […]