Tag: research

When rigid blocs break, they break together A rigid voting bloc is supposed to be the boring case. People vote the same way, election after election, because their identity tells...

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 First...

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. The paper, The cardiovascular safety of...

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

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...

Data-ink ratio is considered to be THE guiding principle in data visualization. Coined by Edward Tufte, data-ink is “the non-erasable core of a graphic, the non-redundant ink arranged in response...

Запись моего доклада на WordCamp Moscow (август 2017г.) доступна онлайн. The recording of my presentation at WordCamp Moscow (Aug 2017) is finally available online: Two Heads are Better Than One...

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...

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...

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,...