I sometimes watch Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CSGO). I am not a fan of a specific team, but I like to watch good Counter-Strike. It is the combination of strategy and fast-paced gameplay that I find great (most likely the same reason I enjoy watching bullet chess). I have recently been interested in how to quantify […]
Tag: data
Uber and irresistibly interesting data
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. […]
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 […]