Author: swinben

Dread risk and secondary data analysis

A few meetings back this article/concept came up in discussion and I promised I would post about it for the group. Gigerenzer, G. (2004). Dread risk, September 11, and fatal traffic accidents. Psychological science, 15(4), 286-287. doi: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2004.00668.x There are…

Data Visualisation

The topic of data visualization frequently comes up in our conversations. A really well thought out display of data can make the patterns in very complex data sets  immediately apparent. A name that came up at last week’s meeting was…

The R programming language

As a follow up to this week’s meeting, the R programming language is a free statistical programing/data analysis language. You can download the latest version for free from the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) http://cran.r-project.org/   To get R on…