Other Programs – Page 13 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Digital Night Journal (iPad Pro, GoodNotes)

2018-08-10

An alternative to using a light pen or smartphone to jot down notes in bed.
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R Stats results with a bit more annotation

2018-06-13

R is still really, really cool. Esp. if you start to write functions for yourself and create your own package. The amount of annotation you can provide is cool and makes you wonder — why doesn't statistic software usually provide this?
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Sharing Microsoft Office Data — What about ‘None of the Above’?

2018-05-16

After the latest update, Microsoft Office gives you the option to share or to share.
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Motivation in Gamification: You have to get the motor started first

2018-04-19

It's easy/easier to imagine a system that should motivate people once it's already working. However, the gap is usually to get it running in the first place.
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Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-))

2018-04-19

A short example of using R for short scale development.
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Learning R during your PhD

2018-03-13

The time during your PhD is probably the best and worst time to learn R. I did start to learn R in earnest later, but dang, I wish I had started then.
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A short shout-out to R

2018-02-15

Okay, R has been around for ages, but it never did grow on me. Recently, giving how commercially unattractive SPSS is, I started to give it another try. And boy, it did blow me away.
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Reading PDFs by Making Margin Notes

2018-01-28

Some people prefer to make notes in the margins of the text. One of the nice things about digital texts is that you can pretty much set the margin for your notes.
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MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß?

2017-11-17

A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.
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Mundane Tasks — Perl to the Rescue Part 2

2017-09-15

Another nice example how even a badly hacked together script can save hours of mundane work. Here, adding text files to a single text file with the filename and the content indented.
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A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.