20 June 2016 - Amsterdam has a persistent shortage of bicycle racks. Bicycle professor Marco te Brömmelstroet argues that this is really a matter of making choices: the space occupied by four parked cars could easily accommodate 30 bicycle racks.

12 June 2016 - It turns out that web scraping is quite often spelled as web scrapping - at least according to google trends data.

27 May 2016 - In this assignment, we’re to report on a multiple regression analysis. I’m using the Outlook on Life (OOL) surveys dataset and I’ll look into the association between explanatory variables age and interest, and response variable interview duration.

27 May 2016 - With my new iPhone, I can finally install ad blockers. When I tried to find information about the available options, I was struck by the moralism and hypocrisy of many articles on the subject. This subtitle says it all: How to use ad-blockers in iOS 9 (and why you shouldn’t).

22 May 2016 - In this assignment, we’re required to report on a regression analysis with just one explanatory variable. If we’re using a categorical variable as explanatory variable, we’re to recode it to two categories with values 0 and 1. I’m using the Outlook On Life surveys dataset and I’ll look into the association between age and interview duration. My hypothesis is that duration will be shorter for younger respondents because they require less explanation.