Publications by Anna Moroz, Group 173

Viz Quiz: What Is Wrong With Covid Charts

20.10.2020

Viz Quiz 2: what is wrong with covid-19 charts Anna Moroz, Group 173 Hi! In this little piece I am going to try fixing a chart on coronavirus statistics in Saint Petersburg. So, the chart itself: ‘Anything wrong?’ In general, the graph is fine - if that is all what you’re getting as an update on coronavirus situation. But the graph can be...

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Viz Quiz Last

16.12.2020

Viz Quiz 5 [LAST!]: Improving Graphics in Classics Anna Moroz Intro Hello there! In this last episode of Viz Quiz series I am going to improve one of the graphs chosen by me as messed up in one of the publications authored by a classic in evolutionary and social psychology Robin Dunbar. The paper is called “Do online social media cut through t...

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Cluster Analysis: Times Higher Education Rankings

06.12.2020

Introduction Welcome to the unknown! This report’s agenda is to cluster universities present in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 (link:https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2021/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/scores). The peculiarity of this work is that ...

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Doing Descriptive Statistics in R

06.12.2020

Introduction In this little piece of paper I am going to evaluate several R packages as for the purpose of doing descriptive data and model statistics. The packages will be evaluated based on the following criteria: research requirements publishing standards my personal preferences. To show how exactly different functions perform, I am going to...

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Dimensionality Reduction On Universities Data

12.11.2020

Introduction Hello there! In this chapter I am going to explore abilities of one of the dimensionality reduction techniques, Principal Component Analysis (or PCA). Exploratory Analysis The data I will be using is universities’ assessment scores data. Its structure is the following: library(readr) library(scales) require(polycor) require(ggc...

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Modeling Participation in Lawful Demonstrations

01.11.2020

Introduction Hello there! In this project I am going to utilize logistic regression to model the fact of attending lawful/peaceful demonstrations in the past 12 months as an outcome variable. The question producing the records for this variable sounded as the following: “Now I’d like you to look at this card. I’m going to read out some diff...

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What Can Be Better On an Academic Motivation Plot?

16.11.2020

Viz Quiz 3: What Can Be Better In an Academic Motivation Chart Anna Moroz, Group 173 Hello to all interested! It is the third episode of the fantastic Viz Quiz series. This time we are going to take a look at a graph showing distribution of the index of academic motivation reflecting the degree of relative autonomy across two waves of longitudin...

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