Categories
Here's all the post categories on my blog.
Github
- A Jekyll Template for Course Websites
Author: steve13 Aug 2018 - Create your Academic Website in Jekyll and Host it on Github
Author: steve16 Aug 2015
Jekyll
- Two Helpful R Markdown/Jekyll Tips for an Easier Blogging Experience
Author: steve01 Aug 2019 - A Jekyll Template for Course Websites
Author: steve13 Aug 2018 - Create your Academic Website in Jekyll and Host it on Github
Author: steve16 Aug 2015
LaTeX
- Streamlining the Syllabus in LaTeX with advdate and datetime
Author: steve08 Aug 2015
Linux
- Notes to Self: Configuring New Linux (Ubuntu) Installations for Your Workflow
Author: steve09 Jul 2019
Political Science
- 'Absolute Gains or Relative Gains' Kind of Misses the Point
Author: steve11 Oct 2024 - Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example
Author: steve11 Jan 2024 - Taming the Poisson Model: A Tutorial
Author: steve28 Dec 2023 - Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding
Author: steve27 Sep 2023 - How to Calculate Tau-b (τb) Using Alliance Data in R
Author: steve11 Nov 2021 - Rationalist Explanations for War: A Quick-and-Dirty Primer
Author: steve08 Sep 2021 - How to (Meticulously) Convert Participant-Level Dispute Data to Dyadic Dispute-Year Data in R
Author: steve25 May 2021 - Permutations and Inference with an Application to the Gender Pay Gap in the General Social Survey
Author: steve24 Oct 2020 - An Illustration of Decision Trees and Random Forests with an Application to the 2016 Trump Vote
Author: steve01 Aug 2020 - Revisiting Reinhart and Rogoff, Ten Years Later
Author: steve20 Apr 2020 - Summarizing Ordinal Models with Simulation from a Multivariate Normal Distribution
Author: steve13 Apr 2020 - How to Make the Most of Regression: Standardization and Post-Estimation Simulation
Author: steve07 Apr 2020 - What Do We Know About British Attitudes Toward Immigration? A Pedagogical Exercise of Sample Inference and Regression
Author: steve23 Mar 2020 - The Normal Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, and Inference from a Sample
Author: steve16 Mar 2020 - Create and Extend Strategic (International) Rivalry Data in R
Author: steve18 Oct 2019 - The Political Ideology of Terrorism in the United States: The 1970s
Author: steve09 Aug 2019 - How Bad America's Gun Violence/Mass Shooting Problem Is, Automated with R Code
Author: steve03 Aug 2019 - What Explains Union Density? A Replication of an Old Article with the {brms} Package
Author: steve02 Aug 2019 - Create Country-Year and (Non)-Directed Dyad-Year Data With Just a Few Lines in R
Author: steve28 Jan 2019 - Outgroup Intolerance and Support for Democracy: An Analysis of White Americans in the World Values Survey Data
Author: steve18 Aug 2017 - How Serious Are Americans About Democracy? An Exploratory Analysis of the AmericasBarometer Data
Author: steve18 Jul 2017 - NATO Countries Spend Just Fine on Defense, and Other Observations
Author: steve30 May 2017 - Age, Income, Partisanship, Racial Attitudes and the Trump Vote in 2016
Author: steve27 Apr 2017 - The Kids May Be All Right: Millennials and Democratic Support
Author: steve10 Dec 2016 - Donald Trump, Controversial Topics, and Public Opinion
Author: steve05 Dec 2016 - What's the Matter with Wisconsin? Probably Not Vote Hacking
Author: steve24 Nov 2016 - American Values, Democracy, and the 'Strong Leader' Problem
Author: steve30 May 2016 - At The Monkey Cage: Putin, Trump, and Citizen Preferences for 'Strong Leaders'
Author: steve24 Dec 2015 - What Can Survey Data Tell Us About Public Opinion and the Gun Control Debate?
Author: steve07 Dec 2015 - Some #PSFrustrations from an IR Perspective
Author: steve30 Apr 2015 - Why Conservative Politicians Don’t Like Political Science
Author: steve05 Jun 2014
R
- Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})
Author: steve25 Oct 2024 - Inequality, Rebellion, and a Reconsideration of an Old Analysis (i.e. Students: You Can Do This, and Do This Better)
Author: steve23 Oct 2024 - What the Probit Link is Trying to Tell You (and How You Can Help It)
Author: steve09 Feb 2024 - Linear Model Diagnostics by IR Example
Author: steve11 Jan 2024 - Taming the Poisson Model: A Tutorial
Author: steve28 Dec 2023 - Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding
Author: steve27 Sep 2023 - How to Adjust for Economic Indicators for Inflation (and Index Them)
Author: steve19 Jan 2023 - Log, Log, Log (i.e. What Logarithmic Transformations Do to Your OLS Model Summary)
Author: steve10 Jan 2023 - Automating a Workflow with {steveproj}, {stevetemplates}, and {targets}
Author: steve13 Sep 2022 - A (Partial) Analysis of RuPaul's Lip Sync Songs from RuPaul's Drag Race
Author: steve16 May 2022 - Print References/Reading List/Bibliography in Your Syllabus (With Some Style) in R Markdown and {stevemisc}
Author: steve13 Jan 2022 - How to Calculate Tau-b (τb) Using Alliance Data in R
Author: steve11 Nov 2021 - How to (Meticulously) Convert Participant-Level Dispute Data to Dyadic Dispute-Year Data in R
Author: steve25 May 2021 - Handle Your Academic Projects/Papers in Rstudio with Make and {steveproj}
Author: steve15 Mar 2021 - Grab World Bank Data in R with {WDI}
Author: steve25 Feb 2021 - How Should You Think About Your Priors for a Bayesian Analysis?
Author: steve08 Feb 2021 - A Quick Tutorial on Merging Data with the *_join() Family of Functions in {dplyr}
Author: steve22 Jan 2021 - A Quick Tutorial on Various State (Country) Classification Systems
Author: steve15 Jan 2021 - Clever Uses of Relational (SQL) Databases to Store Your Wider Data (with Some Assistance from {dplyr} and {purrr})
Author: steve17 Nov 2020 - Permutations and Inference with an Application to the Gender Pay Gap in the General Social Survey
Author: steve24 Oct 2020 - Some Parlor Tricks with Survey-Type Analyses in R
Author: steve21 Aug 2020 - A ggplot Calendar for Your Semester
Author: steve15 Aug 2020 - An Illustration of Decision Trees and Random Forests with an Application to the 2016 Trump Vote
Author: steve01 Aug 2020 - A Better Way to Include Random Effects for Mixed Effects Models in a Stargazer Table
Author: steve15 May 2020 - Revisiting Reinhart and Rogoff, Ten Years Later
Author: steve20 Apr 2020 - Summarizing Ordinal Models with Simulation from a Multivariate Normal Distribution
Author: steve13 Apr 2020 - How to Make the Most of Regression: Standardization and Post-Estimation Simulation
Author: steve07 Apr 2020 - The COVID-19 Initial Unemployment Claims Spike in Context
Author: steve26 Mar 2020 - What Do We Know About British Attitudes Toward Immigration? A Pedagogical Exercise of Sample Inference and Regression
Author: steve23 Mar 2020 - The Normal Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, and Inference from a Sample
Author: steve16 Mar 2020 - The Dow Jones' No Good, Very Bad Day in Context
Author: steve12 Mar 2020 - Bootstrap Your Standard Errors in R, the Tidy Way
Author: steve07 Mar 2020 - Comparing the Read/Save Times for RDS, {qs}, and {fst} Formats (or: All Hail {qs})
Author: steve18 Feb 2020 - Visualizing Random Measurement Error in R
Author: steve08 Feb 2020 - Graphing the Manufacturing Trends Under the Trump Presidency, in R
Author: steve31 Jan 2020 - Illustrate Some Correlation Limitations and Fallacies in R
Author: steve28 Jan 2020 - Create and Extend Strategic (International) Rivalry Data in R
Author: steve18 Oct 2019 - An Illustration of Instrumental Variables and a Two-Stage Least Squares (2SLS) Regression
Author: steve11 Sep 2019 - How Bad America's Gun Violence/Mass Shooting Problem Is, Automated with R Code
Author: steve03 Aug 2019 - What Explains Union Density? A Replication of an Old Article with the {brms} Package
Author: steve02 Aug 2019 - Notes to Self: Configuring New Linux (Ubuntu) Installations for Your Workflow
Author: steve09 Jul 2019 - An Empirical Analysis of RuPaul's Drag Race Contestants
Author: steve17 Feb 2019 - Create Country-Year and (Non)-Directed Dyad-Year Data With Just a Few Lines in R
Author: steve28 Jan 2019 - How Should You Store/Load Your Bigger Data Sets? An Experiment With Six Waves of World Values Survey Data
Author: steve22 Jan 2019 - Mixed Effects Modeling Tips: Use a Fast Optimizer, but Perform Optimizer Checks
Author: steve28 Jun 2018 - Quickly Create Peace Years for BTSCS Models with sbtscs in {stevemisc}
Author: steve26 Jun 2017 - Syncing Word Values Survey Country Codes with CoW Codes
Author: steve29 Jun 2015 - (Quasi)-automating the Inclusion of Random Effects in R's Stargazer Package
Author: steve07 Feb 2015 - A Beginner’s Guide to Using R
Author: steve09 Aug 2014
R Markdown
- A Third Academic R Markdown Article/Manuscript Template
Author: steve11 May 2023 - Handle Your Academic Projects/Papers in Rstudio with Make and {steveproj}
Author: steve15 Mar 2021 - Another Academic R Markdown Article/Manuscript Template
Author: steve11 Sep 2020 - An R Markdown Template for a Non-Academic Résumé
Author: steve01 Sep 2020 - A ggplot Calendar for Your Semester
Author: steve15 Aug 2020 - An R Markdown Template for Beamer Presentations
Author: steve17 Aug 2019 - Two Helpful R Markdown/Jekyll Tips for an Easier Blogging Experience
Author: steve01 Aug 2019 - An R Markdown Approach to Academic Workflow for the Social Sciences
Author: steve23 Jul 2019 - An R Markdown Template for Memos
Author: steve17 Jun 2019 - Make Your Presentations Fun in Xaringan
Author: steve03 Feb 2018 - Automatically Do (Just About) Everything in Your Syllabus with R Markdown
Author: steve05 Jul 2016 - Make Your Academic CV Look Pretty in R Markdown
Author: steve05 Mar 2016 - An R Markdown Template for Academic Manuscripts
Author: steve10 Feb 2016 - Moving from Beamer to R Markdown
Author: steve12 Feb 2015
RuPaul's Drag Race
- A (Partial) Analysis of RuPaul's Lip Sync Songs from RuPaul's Drag Race
Author: steve16 May 2022 - An Aside on Jackie Cox's ''Firework'' Lip-Sync
Author: steve27 May 2020 - An Empirical Analysis of RuPaul's Drag Race Contestants
Author: steve17 Feb 2019
Site News
- Hello world!
Author: steve28 May 2014
Teaching
- Make Simple Cross-Sectional Data with World Bank Data (from {WDI})
Author: steve25 Oct 2024 - Inequality, Rebellion, and a Reconsideration of an Old Analysis (i.e. Students: You Can Do This, and Do This Better)
Author: steve23 Oct 2024 - 'Absolute Gains or Relative Gains' Kind of Misses the Point
Author: steve11 Oct 2024 - Assorted Tips for Student Theses (in My Department and Perhaps Yours)
Author: steve24 May 2024 - What the Probit Link is Trying to Tell You (and How You Can Help It)
Author: steve09 Feb 2024 - Summarizing Ordinal Models with Simulation from a Multivariate Normal Distribution
Author: steve13 Apr 2020 - How to Make the Most of Regression: Standardization and Post-Estimation Simulation
Author: steve07 Apr 2020 - What Do We Know About British Attitudes Toward Immigration? A Pedagogical Exercise of Sample Inference and Regression
Author: steve23 Mar 2020 - The Normal Distribution, Central Limit Theorem, and Inference from a Sample
Author: steve16 Mar 2020 - Set Up Google Scholar to Find Class Readings on Your Syllabus
Author: steve13 Jul 2017 - Put Your Laptops Away, Kids (Vol. 2)
Author: steve11 May 2016 - Everybody Writes: A Web Content Approach for Students
Author: steve06 May 2016 - The Educational Power of Discomfort
Author: steve03 May 2016 - Fun with Attendance and Grades (i.e. Students Should Attend Class)
Author: steve02 May 2016 - Assorted Tips for Students on Writing Research Papers
Author: steve12 Dec 2015 - Dos and Dont's of Writing for Students
Author: steve13 Jun 2015 - How to Do a Literature Review
Author: steve12 Nov 2014 - Taking Good Notes
Author: steve12 Sep 2014 - Reading a Regression Table: A Guide for Students
Author: steve13 Aug 2014