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Category Archives: Technical
RubyMotion for Complete Beginners
According to the RubyMotion guide for getting started, “RubyMotion is a toolchain that permits the development of iOS applications using the Ruby programming language.” In less formal terms it lets you write iOS apps in Ruby using your favorite development environment … Continue reading
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Tagged fun, how-to, pragmatic programming, programming, Ruby, RubyMotion, technology
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Automatically Setup New R and LaTeX Projects
You have a finite amount of keystrokes in your life. Automating repetitive steps is one of the great benefits of knowing a bit about coding, even if the code is just a simple shell script. That’s why I set up … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, how-to, LaTeX, publishing, R, research, technical, technology
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How to Get FIPS Codes from Latitude and Longitude
FIPS codes are unique identifiers for geographic units within the US. Although they have technically been withdrawn as a standard, they are still widely used in political science and other applications for geographic categorization of data. For example, the CBS/New … Continue reading
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Tagged data, elections, geography, GIS, how-to, political science, programming, research, Ruby
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Merging Arthur Banks’ Time Series with COW
Recently I needed to combine data from two of the most widely used (at least in my subfield) cross-national time-series data sets: Arthur Banks’ time series and the Correlates of War Project (COW). Given how often these data sets are … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Banks, Correlates of War, data, economics, history, how-to, international relations, political science, politics, programming, R, Ruby, Stata, statistics, technical, violence, war
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Getting Started with Prediction
From historians to financial analysts, researchers of all stripes are interested in prediction. Prediction asks the question, “given what I know so far, what do I expect will come next?” In the current political season, presidential election forecasts abound. This … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, expectation, genetics, history, information technology, mathematics, politics, probability, programming, Python, regression, Ruby, statistics, technical
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How to Count Words in LaTex Documents
One thing that can be hard to adjust to for new LaTeX users is not being able to easily get a word count relative to other programs. Now there is a solution, thanks to Matthias Orlowski and Alex Iliopoulos. I share … Continue reading
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Tagged LaTeX, LaTeX word count, Perl, programming, scripts, technology
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Find Unique Values in List (Python)
I Googled this problem today and found a lot of people creating long-ish functions to find unique values. There is a much simpler solution: turn your list into a set (which removes duplicates) and then back into a list. newList … Continue reading
Finding a Series of Confidence Intervals in R
[Note: While many of my posts appeal only to readers with certain interests--specifically, mine--this one is meant to provide a public good in the form of an R script that can be run to find multiple confidence intervals around the … Continue reading
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Tagged confidence interval, functions, geeky, graphing, hacking, plots, programming, R, sampling, script, statistics
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