1862. Data Vis Dispatch: June 6, June 13, June 20, June 27 1863. Learning Julia with #TidyTuesday and Tidier.jl 1864. Introduction to Data Visualization for the Web 1865. How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap 1866. Simulating confounders, colliders and mediators 1867. Static and Dynamic Web Scraping with R 1868. Using […]
Category: statistics
National narcissism and proportion estimation in surveys
In a study titled ‘We Made History: Citizens of 35 Countries Overestimate Their Nation’s Role in World History’, the authors conclude that most people overestimate the contribution of the country they are currently living in to world history. This is, according to the authors, evidence of national narcissism. The authors asked students in 35 countries […]
Correlations as effect sizes in data visualisations
Anscombe’s quartet highlights the importance of data visualisation when interpreting the relationship between two variables. That is, a simple correlation coefficient is not sufficient to understand the relationship between two variables. We want to see the data. For a great example on the many different data patterns that can lie behind a correlation coefficient, check […]
Timeline of R history with selected milestones
Source: Figure 1 in Giorgi et al. (2022)
Potpourri: Statistics #96
1831. Data Vis Dispatch: May 2, May 9, May 23, May 30 1832. Visually Accessible Data Visualization 1833. How to create a clickable world cloud with wordcloud2 and Shiny 1834. Making Middle Earth maps with R 1835. Identifying partisan ‘leaners’ in cross-national surveys 1836. The credibility of corruption statistics: A critical review of ten global […]