I've made some updates to the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences. The kit builds on Phil Hagelberg's original and Eric Schulte's org-mode version, and incorporates some packages and settings that are particularly useful for the social sciences. ...
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Visualizing iOS Text Editors
The other day Brett Terpstra posted a gigantic and quite beautifully-executed feature comparison of all of the text editors available for iOS devices. The table is really terrific and also a bit overwhelming, as there's so much data. On the bus home ye...
Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
Prompted by a passing thought about TextMate, I thought I'd make a comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, and irrefutable survey of text editors by way of comparison to locations in The Lord of the Rings.
TextMate: Minas Tirith
A once-great but now decaying city. Only the King has the power to renew it, but he is a long absent, indeed...
Workflow Articles in “The Political Methodologist”
I've written a few times before about how to choose the software you work with, and what you should and should not care about when making those choices. I maintain a page with various resources related to this, if you're interested, most notably the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences. A revised version of an article...
Aligning labels in circular igraph layouts
The folks at IPE at UNC have produced this nice animated gif of some network data on increasing financial integration in the run-up to the 2008 crisis. They used a small trick I pointed to a while ago (just using a pipe, nothing fancy) that lets you ...
Workflow and the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences
Because the next official release of Emacs will finally have a built-in package management system, I've been able to update the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences to make it easier to set up. AucTeX is now installed directly as a package, and so...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
