Is PSPP a replacement for SPSS?
PSPP is sometimes touted as a replacement for SPSS (including by its creators). Well, it isn’t (this is often the case with open source alternatives; the ambition and reality do not quite match). By...
View ArticleAlienating open-source contributors?
Some time ago, I came across a blog post highlighting how open-source contributors can be alienated by maintainers. Tim Jurka describes his unpleasant experience of sending an updated version of an R...
View ArticleCATMA does TEI
I have recently explored open-source approaches to computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA). As is common with open-source software, there are several options available, but as is often also...
View ArticleZotero!
If you aren’t, you should be using Zotero. It amazes me to see researchers ‘managing’ their references manually these days. It’s complicated, takes time, is prone to errors, and simply unnecessary....
View ArticlePolitical Participation ABM: Released for NetLogo 6.1.1
I have just updated my agent-based model on political participation to NetLogo 6.1.1 over at CoMSES. The model has not changed since 2005, but this way the model remains immediately accessible to...
View ArticleHousing Randomizer
2018. Github · Ruedin, Didier. 2018. Housing Randomizer. LiveCode. Github. https://github.com/druedin/housing_randomizer. Github Housing Randomizer for a field experiment on discrimination in the...
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