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A smart and talented friend, who’s a fellow data scientist by profession, came across a probability puzzle that’s supposedly given in some job interviews for data science roles.

Tl;dr: if you choose to publish some code that you’ve written by yourself, and you want attach an “open source” license to that code, you’ll probably be happiest if you choose the GPLv3.

I’ve been critical of social media platforms (in spite of my continued use of them), but I’ve traditionally defended Instagram.

I converted my site to Hugo recently, and I finally figured out a workflow to create blog posts using RMarkdown from inside RStudio.

Bar charts are rightfully criticized for being potentially misleading, but they’re still useful for some data graphics.

Today I deleted my account on GitHub, and I’ve moved some of my public repositories to https://git.eamoncaddigan.net/.

Recently on Twitter, data visualization guru Edward R.

Several fellow researchers at the FAA have backgrounds in cognitive neuroscience and are new to applied research.

FiveThirtyEight has a new puzzle feature called The Riddler.

The shortening days and end of daylight saving time mean that I’ve been walking a dog in the dark lately.

I came to science with a background in engineering, but most of my scientist friends didn’t.

In most of the psychology subdisciplines under the umbrella of “cognitive psychology” (e.g., language, memory, perception, etc.), researchers use programs to collect data from participants (c.f. social psychology, which often uses surveys instead).

Anybody who’s used the ggplot2 package in R is probably familiar with geom_violin, which creates violin plots.

Introduction In a previous post, I presented an analysis of data by Horne, Powell, Hummel & Holyoak, (2015) that investigated changes in attitudes toward childhood vaccinations.

Data Science is hot.

Introduction How easy is it to change people’s minds about vaccinating their children?