Publications by Econometrics and Free Software
It’s time to retire the “data scientist” label
The “Data Scientist” label served its purpose; it allowed us to signal a transition happening in our profession from using only applied mathematical statistical methods to something else, which now also involves the use of a subset of software engineering practices. This transition was mentioned back in 2010 by Deborah Nolan (https://www.stat...
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It’s time to retire the “data scientist” label
The “Data Scientist” label served its purpose; it allowed us to signal a transition happening in our profession from using only applied mathematical statistical methods to something else, which now also involves the use of a subset of software engineering practices. This transition was mentioned back in 2010 by Deborah Nolan (https://www.stat...
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Graphical User Interfaces were a mistake but you can still make things right
Some weeks ago I tweeted this: GUIs were a mistake — Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 9, 2020 you might think that I tweeted this as an unfunny joke, but it’s not. GUIs were one of the worst things to happen for statisticians. Clickable interfaces for data analysis is probably one of the greatest source of mistakes and errors in dat...
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Graphical User Interfaces were a mistake but you can still make things right
Some weeks ago I tweeted this: GUIs were a mistake — Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco) October 9, 2020 you might think that I tweeted this as an unfunny joke, but it’s not. GUIs were one of the worst things to happen for statisticians. Clickable interfaces for data analysis is probably one of the greatest source of mistakes and errors in dat...
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Poorman’s automated translation with R and Google Sheets using {googlesheets4}
A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll be sending the text you want to translate to Google, so don�...
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Poorman’s automated translation with R and Google Sheets using {googlesheets4}
A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll be sending the text you want to translate to Goo...
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Poorman’s automated translation with R and Google Sheets using {googlesheets4}
A little trick I thought about this week; using Google Sheets, which includes a “googletranslate()” function to translate a survey that we’re preparing at work, from French to English, and using R of course. You’ll need a Google account for this. Also, keep in mind that you’ll be sending the text you want to translate to Google, so don�...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many things wrong wit...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many thing...
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(Half) Lies, (half) truths and (half) statistics
Note: if you’re reading this and images are not showing, visit the original post on my blog. The blog post contains interactive plots which help in understanding the point I’m making. I’ve recently come across this graph (on Twitter) from the Economist: You can read the article here (archived for posterity). There are many things wrong wit...
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