Deeply Trivial

So far this month, I've talked about the different things that affect the outcome of measurement - in that it determines how someone wil...

I'm excited to announce this year's theme for the Blogging A to Z challenge : I'll be writing through the alphabet of psych...

No doubt, by now, you've heard about the large-scale investigation into college admissions scandals among the wealthy - a scandal that ...

As I conduct some analysis for a content validation study, I wanted to quickly blog about a fun plot I discovered today: ggpairs, which disp...

Stacked Bar Chart for Rank Data At work on Friday, I was trying to figure out the best way to display some rank data. What I had w...

In my last Statistics Sunday post , I briefly mentioned the concept of regular expressions, also known as regex (though note that in some co...

First Statistics Sunday in far too long! It's going to be a short one, but it describes a great trick I learned recently while completin...

Two statistical indices crossed my inbox in the last week, both of which use fast food restaurants to measure a concept indirectly. First ...

Statistics Sunday: Some Psychometrics Tricks in R It's been a long time since I've posted a Statistics Sunday post! Now th...

In a past post, I talked about content validation studies , a big part of my job. Today, I'm going to give a quick overview of standard ...

Statistics Sunday: Visualizing Regression I had some much needed downtime this weekend, after an exhausting week, along with some se...

Using Text Analysis to Become a Better Writer We all have words we love to use, and that we perhaps use too much. As an example: I ...

IRA Tweet Data You may have heard that two researchers at Clemson University analyzed almost 3 millions tweets from the Internet R...