Science – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Sharing an iPad or iPhone Screen when Using WebEx on the Mac

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Did not notice it before, but you can share an iPad/iPhone screen when you use WebEx on the Mac. Should be great for Usability testing.
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Frequent Student Problem during the Creative Phase of a Project: Birch Solutions

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just an observation that ... enough students to a pretty okay'ish analysis and then turn that fruitful playing field turns into one birch tree during the conception/conceptual design phase.
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Strategic Dissertation Time

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

If you look at your PhD — how much time do you actually have for it? An inspiration from a Coursera Course.
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Recommendation: Marty Lobdell – Study Less Study Smart

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Good video on how to study. Highly recommended.
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Quickly Renaming Variables in R

2021-08-03 | Reading time: 1 minute

Just some short code to make renaming variables in R less sucky.
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Making managing different student projects less sucky (esp. sending mails)

2021-04-24 | Reading time: 3 minutes

If you have many student projects with repeating tasks, e.g., frequently sending mails to a small number of students, it pays to invest some time into organizing these projects.
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Die Zukunft deiner Forschung — Wie organisiert man eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit?

2021-04-22 | Reading time: Less than a minute

A chapter I once wrote for a student conference on how to organize a scientific work. It's in German (unfortunately), but still, might be useful for some.
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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23 | Reading time: 1 minute

It's impressive what you can do with the right tools, well, with R. ;-)
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Example Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Writing is hard — it might be a bit easier with Scrivener, Overleaf, a printer, and a whiteboard.
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Getting yourself an Education

2021-01-30 | Reading time: 7 minutes

Looking at the schools today, this excerpt from «Have Space Suit will Travel» by Robert A. Heinlein is still very relevant. Not only due to Covid19-induced online «learning.»
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