Publications by Maëlle Salmon
Analyzing #first7jobs tweets with Monkeylearn and R
Note that this is a repost of my post on Monkeylearn’s blog. Introduction Have you tweeted about your “#firstsevenjobs”? I did! “#firstsevenjobs” and “#first7jobs” tweets initial goal was to provide a short description of the 7 first activities they were paid for. It was quite fun to read them in my timeline! Of course the hashtag ...
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French villages and a sort of resolution
Sort of introduction to this post and hopefully the next ones I usually don’t have any New Year resolution. However, recent tweets about productivity – from people I actually find productive and inspiring – made me ponder a bit on my unfinished side projects. My main 2016 side-project was submitting and defending my PhD thesis, and I’ve ...
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More water, a bit more about saints
I was lucky enough to get some nice and interesting feedback on my last post. One comment was really useful and pretty embarrassing: I had written “see” instead of “sea” in the whole post… Thanks Steve Dempsey for the correction! I also got some questions which I decided to explore. More water? I had chosen to look specifically for a f...
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Cards on the table
After the last post building on feedback from readers, the blog is back to the regular program of recycling old Github repos. Today’s project was waiting for its turn here and will involve a Catan card game. Nearly a year ago, I played Catan with my husband who was kind enough to accept our monitoring all rounds. My goal? Producing a nice anima...
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The Rt of naming your blog
In this post, I’m sharing a brand-new analysis! The reason for this is my blog being added to R-bloggers by Tal Galili after I filled this form. R-bloggers is a collection of blogs about R, whose new posts get added to the website via the magic of RSS feeds. R-bloggers even has a Twitter account. As a reader of R-bloggers you get exposed to man...
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The animals of #actuallivingscientists
These last days a trending Twitter hashtag was “#actuallivingscientist”, whose origin can be find in this convo and whose original goal was to allow scientists to present themselves to everyone, a sort of #scicomm action. A great initiative, because we need science and we need everyone to know how it’s done, by actual human beings. I didn�...
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The animals of #actuallivingscientists
These last days a trending Twitter hashtag was “#actuallivingscientist”, whose origin can be find in this convo and whose original goal was to allow scientists to present themselves to everyone, a sort of #scicomm action. A great initiative, because we need science and we need everyone to know how it’s done, by actual human beings. I didn�...
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Were there more notable deaths than expected in 2016?
After exploring my study population of Wikipedia deaths, I want to analyse the time series of monthly counts of notable deaths. This is not a random interest of mine, my PhD thesis was about monitoring time series of count, the application being weekly number of reported cases of various diseases. Number of deaths reported over time library("ggp...
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Who were the notable dead of Wikipedia?
As described in my last post, I extracted all notable deaths from Wikipedia over the 2004-2016 period. In this post I want to explore this study population. Who were the notable dead? How old were notable dead? Let me assume here most entries of the table are humans. I won’t make the effort to remove dogs or horses from the list yet, which int...
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Extracting notable deaths from Wikipedia
I like Wikipedia. My husband likes it even more, he included it in his PhD thesis acknowledgements! I appreciate the efforts done for sharing knowledge, and also the apparently random stuff you can find on the website. In particular, I’ve been intrigued by the monthly lists of notable deaths such as this one. Who are people (or dogs, yes, dogs)...
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