Statswars
7 February 2019
I am stuck at home sick today, so I decided to provide a relational analysis of the Stats Package Wars that have been bubbling away for the past week.
True in all its details.
If you want something slightly more constructive, consider Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction, or The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain-Text Social Science.
Dataviz Course Packet Quickstart
2 January 2019
Chapter 2 of Data Visualization walks you through setting up an R Project, and takes advantage of R Studio’s support for RMarkdown templates. That is, once you’ve created your project in R Studio, can choose File > New File > R Markdown, like this:
Select R Markdown …
And then choose “From Template” on the left side of the dialog box that pops up, and select the “Data Visualization Notes” option on the right:
Recent Work
- Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press. Buy on Amazon Abstract
- “Transformative Treatments.” Noûs 52: 320–335. Abstract pdf
- “Visualizing the Baby Boom.” Socius 4: 1-2 Abstract pdf
- “The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Science.” Abstract pdf
- “By the Numbers.” European Journal of Sociology (2017), 58:512-519 Abstract pdf
Current Teaching
- Social Theory from Marx to Parsons, August–December 2018. completed