In a new book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them, G. Elliott Morris sets out to provide an ‘insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy’. I am interested in political polling and, unsuprisingly, I was looking forward to reading this […]
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25 interesting facts #22
526. A worldwide assembly size for a lower chamber could be approximately 2000 seats (Colomer 2014) 527. Consumer-posted photos on Yelp are strong predictors of restaurant survival (Zhang and Luo 2022) 528. More than two million kmĀ² of wilderness were lost from 2000 to 2018 (Mu et al. 2022) 529. The creme-heavy side is uniformly […]
Tips and tricks for ggplot2
Here is a collection of 50+ tips and tricks for ggplot2. Do read them as suggestions, or rule of thumbs, rather than principles and ideas that will generalise across contexts and presentation formats. Most of the tips and tricks are based upon material that is also available via my GitHub repository awesome-ggplot2. Here we go: […]
Potpourri: Statistics #86
1366. The Probability and Statistics Cookbook 1367. A Complete Introduction to R for Data Science 1368. One year in vis 1369. 10 Tips for Using Geolocation and Open Source Data to Fuel Investigations 1370. Using the terra R package to view, download and analyze Google Earth Engine Images 1371. Converting Between Currencies Using priceR 1372. […]
Wolf attacks predict … far-right voting?
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, argues that ‘wolf attacks predict far-right voting’ – at least in Germany. The findings are statistically significant, the effect sizes are (too?) large, and there is even a pre-registration of the study. Yet, I see a few red flags (in addition to […]