Category: blog

In a recent blog post I made the argument that you should consider implementing the function base::use() into your workflow. Following the blog post, there was an interesting discussion on Reddit with some important caveats and limitations of use(). Here, I will summarise three interrelated points that I believe are important additions to my previous […]

In random order. 1. ’Centrumpladsen i Vester Aaby’ (2017) by Ulrik Møller. 2. ‘Mt. Angelus’ (2021) by Seth Armstrong. 3. ‘The Dramatist’ (1945) by Brigit Ganley. 4. ‘Apelles schildert Campaspe’ (1630) by Willem van Haecht. 5. ‘The Sower’ (1888) by Vincent van Gogh. 6. ‘Gas’ (1940) by Edward Hopper. 7. ‘Natura morta con zucca’ (1939) […]

In a technology feature in Nature, Jeffrey M. Perkel provides a guide for early-career researchers to help them make “the right choice” in terms of the best programming language to use. In this post, I will try to provide a few brief answers to the question. This post is more of a response to the […]

What can possibly be worse than a 3D chart or a pie chart? A 3D pie chart. In this post, I will argue that it is actually okay to make 3D pie charts. Or, at least not as bad as some people believe and are happy to make you believe. I have never made a […]

The birthday problem is the fact that only 23 people are needed in a class for the probability that at least two students sharing the same birthday is at least 50%. It is a problem familiar to most people interested in statistics and probability theory. (And you only need 23 people in a statistics class […]