Rick Davies just wrote an interesting post which combined thoughts on QCA (and multi-valued QCA or mvQCA) and classification trees with thoughts on INUS causation and classification trees. The question was something like: how can we look at...
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Simple network diagrams in R
Why study networks? Development and aid projects these days are more and more often focussing on supporting networks, so tools to analyse networks are always welcome. In this post I am going to present a very easy-to-use package for the stat...
Heatmap tables done better, in Sweave and latex
I wrote before about using heatmap tables to combine the strengths of tables and graphics for nominal data. Here is a neat approach using Sweave and latex to produce an effect like in the picture. This latex code is self-contain...
What helped the the Egyptian revolution the most: Twitter, or the government switching it off?
I have been really interested in the "meme" that the Egyptian revolution was "the first social media revolution" and have tolerated infographics that correlate specific twitter activity with events in Egypt beyond. And I ...
Automatic pdf generation and versioning with odfWeave
odfWeave is a great tool for your reproducible research workflow, using R to produce reproducible OpenOffice reports. But a few pieces are lacking. – It is a bit of a drag, every time you want to make a pdf, to have to find and open yo...
Stop your figures jumping about in odfWeave
If you use odfWeave to produce figures, you will probably find they jump about when scrolling through the document – because the figures and figure frames are anchored in openoffice to the paragraph and not “as character”. ...
How do you explain reproducible research to clients?
Most of the statistics work I do now is reproducible research - this can offer a big advantage for clients but of course that doesn't necessarily mean they realise it ... Below is a text we have been pasting in at the bottom of the source d...
Heatmap tables
I blogged earlier (http://socialdatablog.com/what-is-wrong-with-this-graph) about the well-known risks of implying a continuous data scale in a graph where there isn't one. I just produced this alternative in the form of a heatmap table...
My first Reproducible Research Compendium
I have just completed my first Reproducible Research Compendium "Analysis of the combined survey datasets from the American Red Cross Tsunami Recovery Program Psycho-Social Project (adult community respondents)". It is basically all the repo...
Keeping R libraries in sync between different computers using Dropbox
We have a few computers including laptops in our network which all use R (r-project.org) for statistics. We use Dropbox to keep all our files in sync and we are all on ubuntu. The problem was that we wanted to keep our R installations in sy...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
