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Podcast recommendations
I don’t really care about what podcasts people find interesting. That is somewhat interesting as I ask people about their favourite movies, books, restaurants, travel destinations, 90s sit-com, academic papers, paintings, Twitter users, etc. all the time. There is just something about podcasts that I do not care about. If anything, I enjoy talking more […]
How to improve your figures #10: Do not use word clouds
In a previous post, I argued that people should not use pie charts. In this post I am going to make a similar case for word clouds. In short, I will argue that word clouds provide ‘foggy’ insights (pun intended). Specifically, I will discuss a word cloud that got a lot of attention in the […]
Goodbye, Feedly
I have been using Feedly for a long time to keep up with various RSS feeds. I tell myself I started using it around the time Google closed Google Reader, but can it really be 9 years? I guess so. In any case, I am done with Feedly. Feedly is getting worse. I started using […]
25 interesting facts #21
501. Tigers have experienced little evolutionary pressure to evolve green coloration and they appear green to deer (because deer are dichromats) (Fennell et al. 2019) 502. In the United States, Holocaust survivors are more supportive of helping refugees (Wayne and Zhukov 2022) 503. There is a talisman effect in insurance, i.e., consumers who have an […]