I went to the Snowflake world tour in London.
It took me longer than I care to admit to realise this, maybe I can save you some time.
Ok, this might be a very bad idea, and niche. This post describes a revealjs customisation of the default theme to make slides that work well for scholarly presentation, and—maybe—for teaching.
What one can do with a static website these days is pretty amazing!
I can’t stand it! Give me a link if you reference a study
A recent AI detection tool claims unprecedented accuracy in identifying AI-generated scientific texts. But does it really work, and should we even be using such tools in academic research?
Writing is a key skill for academics, but it is often neglected. Here are some tips to improve your writing in just ten minutes.
Is data literacy more important than data analytics? I think it is true for most people that learning data analytics is less important than learning the fundamentals of data literacy.
Adopting a historical perspective on things we take for granted is often fascinating. For example, measurement is not something one usually spends a lot of time questioning.
Yesterday’s headlines have brought a wave of optimism about the UK’s economy. We’re seeing reports suggesting that the ‘UK inflation set to fall ‘dramatically’ to ‘a two-year low’ and about how little house prices have fallen.
In a recent column, Tim Harford argued that in the information war, the scarce resources are curiosity, patience, persistence and judgment. I believe that there is something fundamental in this claim.
In his classic book On Writing Well, William Zinsser gives four important pieces of advice to write better: use good verbs, prefer the active voice, simplify, and, finally, be concrete.
A review of Deep Work by Cal Newport
Tips to present effectively
Review of Super Courses by Ken Bain
This is a short post about annoying writing habits that most students (and many faculty) fall into on a regular basis.
A short review of How to Write a Paragraph by Linda Elder and Richard Paul.
This is the second installment in my learning to learn series; the first explored four tips to study better.
I have been teaching Data Analytics modules in various forms for the past five years. I started teaching class using R, because it was what I knew and what I used in my work. But over the years, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what software to teach.
A short review of Take Great Notes by Mal Leicester and Denise Taylor
Flashcards are a well known studying technique and are widely used in language learning and medicine to help memorise large amount of information. They are less widely used in social sciences, which raises the question: is this because they are less useful here or because we are collectively missing a trick?
A review of The Craft of College Teaching by Robert DiYanni and Anton Borst
I recently finished reading Ultralearning by Scott H. Young.
I recently finished teaching three MSc classes online. Here is what I learned.
Why is writing so difficult?
Reproducibility in management and literate programming
I redid my old and ugly wordpress website using blogdown and Hugo.
