R Stats results with a bit more annotation 2018-06-13 | Reading time: 1 minute 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?[show the article]
Sharing Microsoft Office Data — What about ‘None of the Above’? 2018-05-16 | Reading time: 1 minute After the latest update, Microsoft Office gives you the option to share or to share.[show the article]
Motivation in Gamification: You have to get the motor started first 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute 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.[show the article]
Things that work very well with R: short scale (or: Fishfood ;-)) 2018-04-19 | Reading time: 1 minute A short example of using R for short scale development.[show the article]
Learning R during your PhD 2018-03-13 | Reading time: 2 minutes 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.[show the article]
A short shout-out to R 2018-02-15 | Reading time: 1 minute 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.[show the article]
Reading PDFs by Making Margin Notes 2018-01-28 | Reading time: 1 minute 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.[show the article]
MetaNook Presentation (German): Wissenschaftliches Schreiben im Studium: Oder: Wie schreibe ich das verdammte Teil bloß? 2017-11-17 | Reading time: Less than a minute A 45 minute presentation in German about scientific writing.[show the article]
Mundane Tasks — Perl to the Rescue Part 2 2017-09-15 | Reading time: 2 minutes 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.[show the article]
Some remarks on the Kindle Voyager eBook Reader 2017-09-15 | Reading time: 4 minutes I did try out an eBook reader ... at least for my purposes it was ill-suited. And yeah, the interface on these (older) Amazon devices is abysmal.[show the article]
