PhD – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Recommendations: sketchplanations

2021-06-06 | Reading time: Less than a minute

Small, post-it like explanations that usually are unusually well done.
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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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Kreativität braucht Struktur — Wie lässt sich Kreativität organisieren?

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

As a step between version one of organizing creativity and version two, I wrote this chapter on organizing creativity for a student conference. It is in German, but it might be useful for some.
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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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iPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere device

2020-11-20 | Reading time: 2 minutes

I tried out an iPad 5 mini, and waow, that tablet has just the right size factor. Finding a case is hell, though.
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Well, teaching face-to-face was fun while it lasted

2020-10-26 | Reading time: 3 minutes

The Corona madness continues ... at the university. Unfortunately.
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Digital Lifeboat

2020-09-26 | Reading time: 5 minutes

You know the game of "If there was a fire in your building (apartment/house), what would be the five things you'd take with you?" Now imagine you would not have the time to get anything, because it's either "get out immediately or die". What would you still have with you?
An argument for "Digital Lifeboats".
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Great book about doing statistics with R

2020-09-07 | Reading time: 1 minute

Recently stumbled upon a great website/book on doing statistics with R.
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