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Last year I wrote a post on the endless supply of contextual factors that (might) explain support for Brexit. In brief, I argued that a potential problem with the different studies examining the different factors is that they only contribute to the illusion of cumulative science. That is, just because a new study is able […]

1786. Data Vis Dispatch: April 4, April 11, April 18, April 25 1787. Mastering the Many Models Approach 1788. A Survey of Large Language Models 1789. Balancing Classes in Classification Problems 1790. Plot Prediction Interval in R using ggplot2 1791. Julia’s latency: Past, present and future 1792. A User’s Guide to Statistical Inference and Regression […]

Last year I wrote a post about how I no longer use Feedly. Since I stopped using Feedly I haven’t missed it once. On the contrary, I have been very happy with NetNewsWire. In my post, I wrote that Feedly “started showing me pop-ups in case I want to track ’emerging exploits across the Web […]

1002. Type Design Resources 1003. The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything 1004. En dash, em dash and hyphen; what’s the difference? (also ndash and mdash, or n-dash and m-dash) 1005. Why I Hope to Die at 75 1006. Let’s talk about margins 1007. What are the chances of survival […]

701. Margarine was invented in response to Napoleon III’s call for a cheap alternative to butter (Vaisey-Genser 2003) 702. People consistently underestimate others’ desire for feedback (Abi-Esber et al. 2022) 703. Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment (Gottschalk et al. 2020) 704. Teaspoons and tablespoons are unreliable dosing devices […]