Category: Society and Culture
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Collected quotes, 5 of n
We’ve been losing too many good people this year. Within a little more than a week of each other, bell hooks and Joan Didion both passed away — staggering losses in a time that’s already taken far too much. Both of these writers have shaped so much of my perspective on the world, so I…
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Collected quotes, 4 of n
He had so much to give—stories, reflection, engagement—that somehow none of us ever noticed just how much he was withholding. He could love everybody on the terms on which they needed to be loved, give everybody what they needed to receive; and so, in the end, none of us really knew him. I’ve come to…
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Mapping happiness with ggplot2 in R
I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of coding with R every day, with the goal of compiling a better project portfolio (and reviving my GitHub). This means looking for projects to work on and figuring out where to get the data. One hurdle: Tidying and transforming data has always been a bit…
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Speech
“In a perfect autocracy, the population of nobodies never speaks, all their thoughts and feeling formulated and uttered by the leader and/or his representatives.”
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Basic analysis of Twitter takedown data
Earlier this month, political analyst Amal Sinha tweeted some preliminary analyses of Twitter data about false accounts / bots: Some background: On 12th June, Twitter released new datasets that compiled anonymised data from accounts that seem to be linked to information operations run by the Chinese (PRC), Russian, and Turkish states. These accounts have since…
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Check your privilege
This has been sitting in my Google Drive since 2018. I rediscovered it a couple of weeks ago and figured I might as well find some closure for it. So. Just in time for Father’s Day, too. You know, two decades ago, this day would have meant several hours hunched over a chessboard at home.…
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