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2016

April 8   Tironian Notes · March 10   The Protracted Game · March 9   Plain Text and Pictures · February 18   Walled Garden · February 15   Two Revolutions · February 12   Gravitational Network · February 10   Data Visualization Course Notes · February 6   A Kind of Magic · January 27   Apple Sales Trends to January 2016 · January 16   Two Y-Axes · January 5   Checkered Past · January 3   The Federal Government Owns a Lot of Land · January 1   Sankey Diagrams of Irish Educational Transitions ·

2015

December 3   Assault Death Rates in the United States 1999-2013 · October 16   Using Containerized Travis-CI to check R in RMarkdown files · October 1   Assault Death Rates 1960-2013 · August 31   Fuck Nuance · July 31   Sex Gaps by Cohort in New Zealand Electoral Constituencies · July 22   Apple Sales Trends Q2 2015 · June 27   Sleeping Beauties in Philosophy · June 12   America's Ur-Choropleths · May 20   Fake Science, Real Consequences · May 15   ATP Shownote Data · May 15   UK Election Miscellany · May 10   Politics and the English Landscape · May 9   Who Came Second in the UK Election? · May 1   Banking on it · April 28   Guessing the Population Composition of the US · April 28   Apple Sales Trends · March 22   Paddy O'Carroll · February 25   Gender and Citation in Four General-Interest Philosophy Journals, 1993-2013 · February 3   Another Look at the California Vaccination Data · January 29   Vaccination Exemptions in California Kindergartens · January 20   American Movie · January 15   Failure in Complex Systems ·

2014

December 8   Visualizing Philosophy Rankings · November 30   The Godfather's End of Semester Meetings · November 27   Fly Air Gini · November 15   Sociology's Most Cited Papers by Decade · September 19   Scottish Independence · August 20   Durkheim viva voce · August 13   An ASA Bingo Retrospective · August 12   We're Hiring · August 6   The Persistence of the Old Regime · August 5   A Visualization Error · July 28   The Benefits of a Little Market Competition, ASA Calendar Edition · July 27   Get ASA 2014 Meeting Events into your Calendar More Easily · July 19   This is Just to Say he Wishes · May 4   Gary Becker, an appreciation by Michel Foucault · April 29   Success Breeds Success, Up to a Point · March 26   Silver vs Krugman · February 24   Powered by Hugo · February 15   Social Aspects of Success and Failure in Cultural Markets · January 23   Plain Text, Papers, Pandoc · January 7   An issue in Mavericks with com.apple.IconServicesAgent ·

2013

November 26   Karl Marx or Pope Francis? · November 17   Two New Papers · October 8   MIT Sociology · September 25   The Golden Age of LISREL · September 4   A Word on Critical Realism · August 16   Academic Feedback · June 24   Citation Networks in Philosophy: Some Followup · June 22   Monsters University: the Aftermath · June 19   Lewis and the Women · June 18   A Co-Citation Network for Philosophy · June 11   Following up on Paul Revere · June 9   Using Metadata to find Paul Revere · May 28   Updates to the Social Science Starter Kit · May 6   Google Glass and the need for XU Design · April 17   New Tools for Reproducible Research · March 26   Sociology Rankings and the Fabio Effect · March 25   Sociology Department Rankings for 2013 · March 18   We have Changed the Wording in the Workflow Drop-down Box · March 14   U.S. News's Small N Problem · March 13   Crowdsourcing Sociology Department Rankings: 2013 Edition · February 27   What you Can't Expect when you're Expecting · February 25   Ten Things the Emacs Social Science Starter Kit gives you · February 21   Updates to the Emacs Starter Kit for the Social Sciences · February 16   Village Life · January 12   Aaron Swartz · January 11   Invisible Men ·

2012

December 20   The New York Times and the OECD · December 18   Assault Death Rates in America: Some Follow-Up · December 2   Goodnight Hypercritical · November 13   The Long Shadow of the X-Case · November 10   Installing Minion Pro · September 5   Health Care is iTunes · September 4   The Sources of Social Power · August 24   Bottom Feeders · August 21   This Year's Theory Syllabus Leaves Out More Than Ever · August 13   Bingo in Utopia · August 13   After Taking Beyond the Relational Paradox of Bringing it Back in Seriously Revisited · July 28   Olympics Trolling · July 28   Feedback · July 21   Assault Deaths within the United States · July 20   America is a Violent Country · July 18   More 5by5 Data · July 17   Talk Radio · July 13   Trying to Rein it In · July 13   The Neighborhood in your People ·