Scraping with R Although other languages are probably more suitable for web scraping (e.g. Python with Scrapy), R does have some scraping capabilities. Unsurprisingly, the ever awesome Hadley has written…
https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/641272758257717248 https://twitter.com/pnin1957/status/641284556818096128 Let's test that. Since we don't have the original data, we can't use that. We can however use open datasets. I like to use Wicherts' dataset. So let's…
We will be submitting the Admixture in the Americas article (first part) to Mankind Quarterly as a target article. Therefore, we are looking for people to comment on it. We…
I am considering starting another OpenPsych journal focused on sociology and political science. This is because I need somewhere to publish my S factor papers and I want an open…
I looked around to see if I could find a nice function for just plotting the results of kmeans() using ggplot2. I could not find that. So I wrote my…
I recently read the biography of William Shockley. Basically, I am reading biographies of prominent researchers to gain an understanding of them. I was also thinking of writing one about…
Wikipedian battlegrounds For those who don't know, Wikipedia is a common battleground for the ideological part of the race and intelligence debate. One can see this in the talk pages…
Edit 2019 You don't really need the below. Look at the `model.matrix()` function, which converts data frames into matrices for glmnet and similar function. Original post Sometimes you need to…
Goodreads. The book is on Libgen (free download). Since I have ventured into criminology as part of my ongoing research program into the spatial transferability hypothesis (psychological traits are stable…
From the interactive visualization I previously published to give foster an intuitive understanding of the concept: Tail effects are when there are large differences between groups at the extremes (tails)…