Scraping IMDB user ratings
There are some sites that have scraped the average movie ratings at various sites such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatos and Allmovies. Here is one particularly good (and still online) job.…
There are some sites that have scraped the average movie ratings at various sites such as IMDB, Rotten Tomatos and Allmovies. Here is one particularly good (and still online) job.…
Noah Carl has been investigating the relationship between cognitive ability and political opinions aside from the usual confused 1-axis left-right model. Specifically, looking at the economic freedom and personal freedom…
In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven't read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it:…
Normally, testing colorism or other causal models of why human racial traits have nonzero relationships to socioeconomic outcomes requires that one has the following data: Measure of racial ancestry Measures…
OSF has now suspended the entire repository, not just deleted the user datafile. Not sure why this is the case. The paper (PDF) is available here. Edited to add: The repository…
In a recent paper, Beaver et al looked at the relationships between crime, gender and sexual orientation: This study examined the association between sexual orientation and nonviolent and violent delinquency…
Data from the OKCupid project. In light of a recent paper examining who prefers to date within their own religion, I recalled that there was a question about this in…
In the spirit of reproducible science, this is a post about an error I fixed in a function that affects all prior analyses with that. When factor analyzing data, the…