Tag: research

Two weeks ago, I published a research paper Ethnic Divisions Within Unity: Insights into Intra-Group Segregation from Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Society. It is my first paper in so many aspects

I am glad and proud to announce that a paper which I helped to prepare and publish is available on the Nature’s group site.

I can’t elaborate yet, but in case you wondered how scientific satisfaction looks like, here’s a perfect illustration.

What do we see when we look at slices of a pie chart? Angles? Areas? Arc length? The answer to this question isn’t clear and thus “experts” recommend avoiding pie charts at all.

Запись моего доклада на WordCamp Moscow (август 2017г.) доступна онлайн.

You know that I like reading a ruthless critique of others’ work – I like telling myself that by doing so I learn good practices (in reality, I suspect I’m just a case what we call in Hebrew שמחה לאיד – the joy of some else’s failure).

From time to time, you might hear that graphical method A is better at representing problem X than method B. While in case of problem Z, the method B is much better than A, but C is also a possibility. Did you ever ask yourselves (or the people who tell you that) “Says WHO?”

Как это не печально, большинство начинающих блоггеров забрасывают свой блог вскоре после его открытия. Что отличает успешных (стойких?) блоггеров от тех, которым не удаётся продержаться? Стоит ли вести коллективные блоги, и если да, как важно распределение труда между авторами?
В этой лекции мы попытаемся пролить свет на эти вопросы, анализируя поведение более пяти миллионов пользователей WordPress.com.