Ilya Kashnitsky

NoteEnd of March is the time when I remember with warm nostalgia the vivid memories of working alongside and learning from Jim Vaupel, who died untimely on 27th March 2022.

As football fans, we constantly hear pundits making bold predictions.

Recently, a post on LinkedIn highlighted a Google Scholar profile of an apparently just starting PhD researcher who suddenly started accumulating unbelievable counts of citations to his questionably numerous papers.

In the last few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about Claus Wilke’s blog post on the essential need of writing and publishing a lot of papers for academic researchers.

Several days ago I saw a post on LinkedIn by Jornt Mandemakers with some very curious results from Gender and Generations Programme surveys.

About this tutorial In summer 2024, Zotero had a major update to version 7.

For four years I’ve been following #30DayMapCallenge with admiration but not daring to commit to it.

Did you ever think why we (okay, I’m clearly biased, maybe just many of us, humans) love maps so much?

Deriving coordinates from a string of text that represents a physical location on Earth is a common geo data processing task.

Faceting1 is probably the most distinctive feature that defined the early success and wide adoption of ggplot2.

Quite often data processing or analysis needs bring us to write own functions.

Since R community developed brilliant tools to deal with spatial data, producing maps is no longer the privilege of a narrow group of people with very specific almost esoteric knowledge, skillset, and often super expensive software.

FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar saw many surprising results.

It really is a remarkable achievement and maybe a lot of luck that the world mundanely operates with such a complex indicator as life expectancy.

One of the game-changing features of ggplot2 was the ease with which one can explore the dimensions of the data using small multiples.1 There is a small trick that I was to share today – put all the data in background of every panel.

Important I have to confess that the core message of this post is not really a fresh saying.

NoteAbout this tutorial Here is a bit refreshed translation of my 2015 blog post, initially published on Russian blog platform habr.com.

Have you been feeling lately that you are missing out the coolest skill-set in academia?

On 28 November 2018 I presented a poster at Dutch Demography Day in Utrecht.

SCImago Journal & Country Rank provides valuable estimates of academic journals’ prestige.