Methods BitesUsing Geospatial Data in RThe use of geospatial data — data that can be mapped using geographic information systems (GIS) — has become increasingly widespread in…Jun 11, 2021Jun 11, 2021
Methods BitesGeneralized Additive Models: Allowing for some wiggle room in your modelsGeneralized additive models (GAMs) have become an important tool for modeling data flexibly. These models are generalized linear models…May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
Methods BitesExtracting Emotions from Faces with Face++ (and Microsoft Azure)Images are an increasingly used data source in the social sciences. One application is to extract features from human faces using machine…Apr 23, 2021Apr 23, 2021
Methods Bitesregplane3D: Plotting 3D regression predictions in RThe interpretation and presentation of empirical findings from (generalized) linear models has come a long way in the social sciences…Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021
Methods BitesTeaching Quantitative Social Science in Times of COVID-19: How to Generate and Distribute…The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities around the globe to switch from on-site teaching to online teaching. As a consequence…Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021
Methods BitesHow to write your own R package and publish it on CRANR is a great resource for data management, statistics, analysis, and visualization — and it becomes better every day. This is to a large…Jul 16, 2020Jul 16, 2020
Methods BitesHow can social scientists collect and analyze web logs — records of individuals’ browsing behavior…In this Methods Bites Instructional Blog Post, Ruben Bach summarizes some key insights of his talk in the MZES Social Sciences Data Lab in…Apr 14, 2020Apr 14, 2020
Methods BitesLaTeX and OverleafLaTeX is a high quality typesetting system that that facilitates the production of well-formatted document. It has become highly popular…Mar 5, 2020Mar 5, 2020
Methods BitesEfficient Data Management in RThe software environment R is widely used for data analysis and data visualization in the social sciences and beyond. Additionally, it is…Feb 18, 2020Feb 18, 2020
Methods BitesApplied Bayesian Statistics Using Stan and RWhether researchers occasionally turn to Bayesian statistical methods out of convenience or whether they firmly subscribe to the Bayesian…Jan 30, 2020Jan 30, 2020
