If you are interested in learning R, I can recommend this resource: Quantitative Politics with R. It is a guide in development (together with Zoltán Fazekas). In the current version, you will find an introduction to the basics of R (e.g. how to import and manipulate data), how to collect political data (primary and secondary […]
Category: statistics
Big Five personality traits in non-WEIRD settings
A new study, published in Science Advances, questions the validity of the Big Five personality traits outside of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) populations. I was interviewed by New Scientist in order to give my take on the implications of the study. The article is available online.
Potpourri: Statistics #56
526. Hands-on Machine Learning with R 527. The Truth About Linear Regression 528. Data Viz Book Reviews 529. Make Multi-point “dumbbell” Plots in ggplot2 530. Storyline 531. City Intelligence Data Design Guidelines 532. shinyApp(), runApp(), shinyAppDir(), and a fourth option 533. Reordering and facetting for ggplot2 534. R Docker tutorial 535. S4: a short guide […]
Potpourri: Statistics #55
514. What happens when a survey estimate doesn’t match a known benchmark 515. The Evolution of a ggplot (Ep. 1) 516. R Visualization 517. Dog breed popularity chart 518. 11,264 Regressions in One Tidy Plot 519. Getting Started with Multiple Imputation in R 520. The Permutation Test 521. R Best Practices 522. Tuning ggplot themes […]
Har statistikdatabasen Numbeo pålidelige data?
I løbet af de seneste år har medier som DR, TV 2, Berlingske, B.T. m.v. formidlet historier, der bygger på data fra statistikdatabasen Numbeo. Faktatjekmediet TjekDet har kigget nærmere på, om disse data er pålidelige. I den forbindelse giver jeg blandt andet følgende kommentar med på vejen: Det kan være, at folk, der er mere […]