Viewpoint Diversity in Psychology
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. «To Kill a Mockingbird» by Harper Lee Recently “The...
View ArticleThesis Template – Media and Computer Science – Medieninformatik [German...
“… and that’s when I went to the fridge to get another beer.” German teacher recounting how he corrected our exams Ah, bachelor and master project reports, ah, bachelor and master’s theses, they could...
View ArticleGetting the Right Design before Getting the Design Right
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams In the book “Sketching User Experiences” by Greenberg, Carpendale, Marquardt & Buxton (2012), there...
View ArticleTake Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”
Algebra and plane geometry were all the math our school offered; I went ahead on my own with advanced algebra and solid geometry and trigonometry and might have stopped so far as College Boards were...
View ArticleSupervising Written Exams with Classical Music
«In the spirit of today, when I’m handing out the exams, we’re going to further examine the totally suffering individual.» Professor Ralph Noble, professor of [...]
View ArticleRemote Usability Testing on Mobiles with WebEx Meetings
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Penn [...]
View ArticleReading Books with Notability and GoodReader
«I don’t know. Tell me about them.» I started to do so. Shortly Harshaw took out a pocket notebook, started taking notes. «The Cat Who [...]
View ArticleThe Mind Parasite has Arrived in the German Student Population
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color [...]
View ArticleMicrosoft Word Advanced Search and Replace
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. Steve Jobs If you have to use Microsoft Word, the Search and Replace Feature [...]
View ArticleCiting R and RStudio
Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research. Wilson Mizner Even though I spend the morning in an futile effort to create a [...]
View ArticleStandards
“Man muss sich nicht mit dem Hässlichen gemein machen.” [roughly translates as: “You don’t need to make yourself common with ugly.”] Unknown One of the [...]
View ArticleMethod to Make Sense of Your Data: Build the Wall
«It started out as a scrapbook and just kind of mutated.» «What is it?» «I call it the Wall of Weird.» [Cut to a wall [...]
View ArticleGreat book about doing statistics with R
«The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They [...]
View ArticleDigital Lifeboat
Having dumped ninety percent of my packing onto Gwen I tackled the hardest ten percent: my business records and files. Writers are pack rats, mostly, [...]
View ArticleWell, teaching face-to-face was fun while it lasted
«You’re buying an environment, not an education. The education is something you build for yourself.» Victor Zen about college After a summer semester of pure [...]
View ArticleiPad 5 mini — Ideal reading and note taking everywhere device
«Why don’t you ever look beneath the surface, young man! I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only [...]
View ArticleYou should not see this posting, but if you do, you might want to read it.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the [...]
View ArticleReading Books with Notability and GoodReader
«I don’t know. Tell me about them.» I started to do so. Shortly Harshaw took out a pocket notebook, started taking notes. «The Cat Who [...]
View ArticleExample Writing Workflow (Academic Articles)
Every writer I know has trouble writing. Joseph Heller Looking at the last conference submission I did write, I think my writing workflow for academic [...]
View ArticleGreat Sources on Data Visualization (with R)
«The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.» Ben Shneiderman There are three sources on data visualization that I can highly recommend: Claus O. Wilke [...]
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