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March 12, 2025

Are meta-analyses always overpowered? Not quite.

This statement is often presented as a given, but is it actually true? While it’s easy to see why people might believe it, the reality is far more nuanced.

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November 14, 2019

Center of Social and Culture Data Science Expo

Come join us at McGill’s CSCDS Expo on January 20, 2020!

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September 24, 2019

Update from our PODS intern, Camille

Exciting new beginnings for our former intern

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July 19, 2018

Clustering makeup data with K-means

Continuing my makeup data exploration using k-means clustering

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May 3, 2018

Visualizing makeup data using R

How I used R to visualize data from a makeup API that I randomly stumbled across

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April 26, 2018

Explore messaging patterns on Facebook

Analyzing my Facebook message history with rvest and tidytext

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December 20, 2017

A gentle INLA tutorial

INLA is a nice (fast) alternative to MCMC for fitting Bayesian models

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