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 […]
The discussion section
Scientific studies tend to follow the same logical structure. Introduction, theory, method, results, discussion, conclusion. Easy-peasy. Sometimes the sections have other names or are merged together, e.g., “Discussion and concluding remarks”, and for the less serious journals (such as PNAS), they save the methodology for the footnote-size section at the end of the paper. I […]
The many causes of Brexit
In 2018, I wrote a critical blog post about a study that examined whether welfare reforms caused Brexit. The study, now published in American Economic Review, concludes “that the EU referendum could have resulted in a Remain victory had it not been for austerity”. (It is by the same researcher who tried to make people […]
Assorted links #16
451. SQL style guide / SQL Style Guide 452. Statistical Analysis of the Elo Rating System in Chess 453. The Behavioral Economics Guide 2022 454. WINDOWS93 455. Digital vs. Practical Shots in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD 456. Write plain text files 457. The Aggregate Confusion Project 458. Do Yourself a Favor and Go Find a […]
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 […]
Breaking Bad bliver bedre #2
For små ti år siden skrev jeg et indlæg med den pointe, at Breaking Bad bliver bedre over tid. Jeg skrev det pågældende indlæg før serien var afsluttet, og det er derfor på sin plads med en lille (forsinket) opdatering. I nedenstående tabel viser jeg de gennemsnitlige IMDb ratings for de fem sæsoner. Der er […]