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There are 11 posts tagged statistics (this is page 2 of 3).

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Topic nets

I’m sorry. I love you (you know who you are, all of you). I really do. I love your work, I think it’s groundbreaking and transformative, but the network scientist / statistician in me twitches uncontrollably whenever he sees someone creating a network out of a topic model by picking the top-n topics associated with each […]

in method | October 11, 2012 | 776 Words | 6 Comments

Making pretty things with R and ggplot2

This isn’t going to be a long tutorial. I’ve just had three people asking how I made the pretty graphs on my last post about counting citations, and I’m almost ashamed to admit how easy it was. Somebody with no experience coding can (I hope) follow these steps and make themselves a pretty picture with […]

in method | September 25, 2012 | 1,012 Words | 3 Comments

Networks Demystified 3: The Power Law Rant

Dear humanists, scientists, music-makers, and dreamers of dreams, Stop. Please, please, please stop telling me about the power law / Pareto distribution / Zipf’s law you found in your data.  I know it’s exciting, and I know power laws are sexy these days, but really the only excuse to show off your power law is […]

in method | June 8, 2012 | 4,095 Words | 4 Comments

The Myth of Text Analytics and Unobtrusive Measurement

Just realized Klout is the perfect metaphor for media in the modern era. It assumes you’re an expert in anything you talk a lot about. — Dan Munz (@dan_munz) May 5, 2012 Text analytics are often used in the social sciences as a way of unobtrusively observing people and their interactions. Humanists tend to approach […]

in method | May 6, 2012 | 1,645 Words | 1 Comment

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