The other day, the Guardian could report that Uber paid Alan Krueger $100,000 for a study that was positive towards Uber. The fact that the study was positive towards Uber should come as no surprise. You do not pay a lot of money for a study showing that your business is bad for the world. […]
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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 […]
The plural of anecdote
There are two very different quotes. The first is “the plural of anecdote is not data”. The second is “the plural of anecdote is data”. They are pretty much opposites. You can find more information on the two quotes here. I often see the former quote being used to dismiss anecdotal evidence and ask for […]
Advice on data and code
I have been reading a few papers on how to structure data and code. In the post, I provide a list of the papers I have found together with the main advice/rules offered in the respective papers (do consult the individual papers for examples and explanations). Noteworthy, there is an overlap in the advice the […]
PPEPE added to Party Facts
Our data on populist parties in European Parliament elections (PPEPE), from our article in the Electoral Studies, is now linked to the Party Facts. You can find it here. Party Facts, for people not already familiar with this amazing resource, links several datasets on political parties to make it easier for researchers to work with […]
New article in Electoral Studies: Populist parties in European Parliament elections
In the June issue of Electoral Studies, you will find an article I’ve written together with Mattia Zulianello. In the article, we introduce a comparative dataset on left, right and valence populist parties in European Parliament elections from 1979 to 2019. Here is the abstract: Despite the increasing interest in populism, there is a lack […]
Partiernes popularitet blandt danskerne
Jeg faldt over denne nye blog, Den Lille Empiriker, der blandt andet har lavet en fin interaktiv graf over udviklingen i opbakningen til Folketingets partier: Oversigten bruger datasættet med meningsmålinger, der kan findes her. Foruden ovennævnte er der også allerede indlæg på bloggen omkring emner såsom professionelle cykelryttere og politisk polarisering i Folketinget under COVID-19.
Potpourri: Statistics #64
657. Tidymodels: tidy machine learning in R 658. The Seven Key Things You Need To Know About dplyr 1.0.0 659. Introduction to Data Science 660. When Is Anonymous Not Really Anonymous? 661. Empirical Papers for Teaching Causal Inference 662. Why log ratios are useful for tracking COVID-19 663. Effect Sizes and Power for Interactions in […]
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 […]
Hvor mange skoler er lukket?
Altinget kunne for et år siden rapportere, at 603 skoler er lukket på 10 år. Der er dog noget, der tyder på, at dette tal er overdrevet og reelt set er betydeligt lavere. Johan Ries Møller, specialestuderende ved Syddansk Universitet, har netop offentliggjort nye data for udvalgsstyrede kommuner, der viser, at blot 148 folkeskoler blev […]