R – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Automating Cutting Parts of Videos for Transcription

2023-12-06

Using ffmpeg and a table with file/timecodes to cut selection from larger files for quicker transcription with Whisper Transcription
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Automating Video to mp3 Conversion

2023-12-06

Using R and ffmpeg to quickly transfer video files into mp3s.
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Script Statistics and Methods for User Research (in German)

2022-10-14

If you are doing user studies, and you want to actually find out whether your products work, this script might be interesting. Well, if you understand German (sorry, I'll hope to do an English version soon).
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Beautiful presentation about the viridis colormap

2022-04-17

You frequently need colors when you visualize data — but which colors? Beautiful presentation about the development of the viridis colormap.
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Interesting 30 Day Challenge with great links for Graphs/Charts

2022-03-24

This #30DayChartChallenge looks pretty interesting. And it comes with brilliant links.
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Fun with R: The Tarkin Effect

2021-12-03

Saw it as a meme somewhere and recreated it with R.
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Quickly Renaming Variables in R

2021-08-03

Just some short code to make renaming variables in R less sucky.
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Great Sources on Data Visualization (with R)

2021-02-23

It's impressive what you can do with the right tools, well, with R. ;-)
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Crawling your own website

2021-01-24

I used R to write a crawler and downloaded the text and the images. Leads to nice analyses, e.g., a nice word cloud of the tags and categories.
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Great book about doing statistics with R

2020-09-07

Recently stumbled upon a great website/book on doing statistics with R.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

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.