How can we measure whether a meeting is productive or not? And if we can, what is the percentage of meetings that keep employees from doing productive work? 10%? 15%? 80%? Did you know that 70% of meetings keep employees from doing productive work? Boro baba. In this post I will show that there is […]
Category: statistics
Potpourri: Statistics #83
1213. A detailed guide to colors in data vis style guides 1214. parlscot: An R package to download Scottish Parliamentary data 1215. France 2022: How to predict an election 1216. peacesciencer: Tools and Data for Quantitative Peace Science 1217. Left-Right Placements of GB Westminster Constituencies in 2021 1218. Effects of Causes and Causes of Effects […]
Book Review: Covid by Numbers
Most people have their own personal stories to tell about the COVID-19 pandemic. The first encounter with the new virus, the experience of lockdowns (or lack hereof), (not) getting vaccinated, etc. We all have our own unique view on life during the pandemic. However, at the core of the pandemic was data. Statistics, numbers, graphs, […]
Potpourri: Statistics #82
1172. Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice 1173. Fooled by beautiful data: Visualization aesthetics bias trust in science, news, and social media 1174. 10 ways to use fewer colors in your data visualizations 1175. Why scatter plots suggest causality, and what we can do about it 1176. LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy […]
Open and Reproducible Research Glossary
The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training have launched a new glossary. You can find a paywalled paper introducing the glossary here. I did not find the glossary easy to skim through so I decided to download the glossary from GitHub and make my own table with the 261 entries. Here it is: Title […]