Inventory & analysis of small conservation grants, C&W Africa - Powell & Mesbach! Lots of charts!
Jul 27, 2020
r & dataviz & conservation & IUCN & Africa & reproducibleResearch & evaluation
Here it is at last This was an interesting job. We visited three countries, did a lot of interesting interviews, and a lot of data analysis. This
A reproducible workflow for evaluation reports
Jan 11, 2019
R & reproducibleResearch & research & evaluation
This is a draft of a short article for the UKES Bulletin. Most evaluators have to produce at least a few tables and graphics in their evaluation
A starter kit for reproducible research with R
Jan 11, 2019
R & reproducibleResearch & evaluation
This accompanies my draft short article for the UKES Bulletin: A reproducible workflow for evaluation reports. Here are just two files which
How do you explain reproducible research to clients?
Jan 3, 2018
reproducibleResearch & research & evaluation
Most of the statistics work I do now is reproducible research - this can offer a big advantage for clients but of course that doesn’t necessarily
Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in plantuml in sublime-text 3
Jan 1, 2015
opensource & plaintext & ubuntu & reproducibleResearch
Here is my custom build system for compiling markdown files including plantuml chunks in sublime-text 3 on Linux. Obviously you will have to replace
Custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in sublime-text 3
Nov 9, 2014
reproducibleResearch & ubuntu & opensource
Here is my custom build system for compiling rmarkdown files in sublime-text 3 on Linux. Obviously you will have to replace the /home/steve parts
Your zotero filesystem
Oct 3, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource & zotero
Zotero is a really great tool for organising your scientific and professional documents and their citations, and keeping documents and citations
Extract annotations and highlighted passages from PDF files
Oct 3, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource & zotero
Every student, researcher and scientist has to read and make notes and highlight or scribble on texts. In long-gone days I spent ages working on Uni
From wordpress to pelican
Sep 10, 2014
reproducibleResearch & opensource
Wordpress is a great blogging engine. But I spend almost all my time with plaintext files in markdown. Whatever I am working on, from my CV to
Bar charts with percentage labels but counts on the y axis
Jun 11, 2014
ggplot & reproducibleResearch
Bar charts and histograms are easily to understand. I often write for non-specialist audiences so I tend to use them a lot. People like percentages
Floating table of contents for your html reports using knitr
Apr 28, 2014
reproducibleResearch
If you love knitr and rstudio and use them to produce long reports, you probably know that you can produce a table of contents in your html (and
emacs org-mode as outliner, bibliography and citation manager - working with zotero too
Dec 12, 2013
reproducibleResearch & zotero
Well, for now I have regretfully given up on docear for writing papers - although it fantastic to be able to mindmap your ideas and citations, it
Does maintaining supply of water and sanitation in IDP sites after the relief phase encourage people to stay in the sites?
Oct 2, 2013
development & evaluation & reproducibleResearch
Does cutting them
Rstudio starts to codefold markdown
Sep 16, 2013
reproducibleResearch
Rstudiois a great tool for working with R and R scripts. And Markdown is a great way to write even complex, reproducible documents in plain text. So
Omni test for statistical significance
May 9, 2013
reproducibleResearch & surveyResearch
In survey research, our datasets nearly always comprise variables with mixed measurement levels - in particular, nominal, ordinal and continuous, or
Rstudio, not vim, for reports
Jan 25, 2013
reproducibleResearch
I just wasted a dozen hours scattered over several days testing out vim instead of r-studio for when I am writing longer reports with a lot of text
Using R for classification in small-N studies
Jul 14, 2012
development & evaluation & reproducibleResearch
Rick Davies just wrote an interesting post which combined thoughts on QCA (and multi-valued QCA or mvQCA) and classification trees with thoughts on
Roma parents’ views on participation in education in B&H.
Jul 10, 2011
Bosnia-Herzegovina & education & reproducibleResearch & Roma & social research
Our OSI funded project on parental participation in schools in B&H in 2009, which employed a representative face-to-face survey of 1143 parents,
Another example of why research should be reproducible.
Jul 10, 2011
reproducibleResearch & social research
via nytimes.com If only the original journal had made them submit their data and source code for peer inspection. It wouldn’t stop this kind of
Stop your figures jumping about in odfWeave
Jan 21, 2011
odfWeave & reproducibleResearch
If you use odfWeave to produce figures, you will probably find they jump about when scrolling through the document — because the figures and figure
Problems with R
Sep 20, 2010
opensource & reproducibleResearch
Struggling for two whole days to do some not-terribly-advanced repeated-measures analysis of variance in R. Probably my worst experience with R so