16/10/2017 Talk on Visual Inference at the Social Science Data Lab This Wednesday, October 18th, I will present “Visual Inference for the Social Sciences” at the MZES Social Science Data Lab. “This talk introduces a remedy to the criticism frequently voiced against data visualization and exploration: that it may give rise to an over-interpretation of random patterns. A way to overcome this problem... View Article
20/09/2017 Blog Post on “Graphical Perception of Polls” at CorrelAid.org Another blog post on how to visualize the results of political polls – this time with the data science people at CorrelAid.org.
18/09/2017 Blog Post on “Visualizing the Uncertainty of Polls” at zweitstimme.org Colleagues at the pretty awesome zweitstimme.org asked me to contribute a blog post on visualizing the uncertainty of polls. Thanks for having me!
15/09/2017 Talk on Robustness of Religious Indices Yesterday, I gave a talk on “Why we should not worry about expert disagreement over religious indices” (joint work with Thomas Plümper) at the Conference “A Secular Age beyond the West: Modes of Secularity in Asia” in Hannover.
12/09/2017 Religious Minorities: Workshop and Panel at GIGA Tomorrow, I will be at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg and part of the workshop “Religious Minorities: Grievances, Discrimination and Conflict” (11.15-16.00h) as well as the panel at the GIGA Forum “Contested Freedom: The Many Faces of Religious Discrimination Across the Globe” (18.00-20.00).
08/09/2017 Talk at ECPR in Oslo Yesterday, I presented new experimental evidence on “Polls, Uncertainty and Perceptions of Uncertainty” (joint work with Lucas Leemann) at the ECPR general conference in Oslo.
25/08/2017 Sage Online Course on Interactive Data Visualization in R! This course introduces you to techniques and tools for presenting data in visually attractive and interactive ways using the R programming language. By the end of the course, you will be familiar with the workflows for producing visualizations and be able to produce a range of visualizations from data. At... View Article
29/07/2017 Data Visualization at Essex Summer School I am currently teaching a full two-week course on “Data Visualization” at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis.
05/07/2017 Bayesian Statistics at CCCP I gave short course on Bayesian statistics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics. Cool photo and thanks for a fun time!
01/06/2017 Visiting Professorship at the University of Mannheim As of today, I am a Visiting Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the CDSS at the University of Mannheim.