jpatrick

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   by jpatrick 10y ago

   > I don't understand why this article is so long. It's a humor piece. "Shouts & Murmurs" is the New Yorker's humor section.
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   by jpatrick 11y ago

   I think intermediate-complexity graphics are where ggplot2 excels. If you want to do something like plot a bunch of small multiples, you'll have a much better time of it using facet_grid than wrangling with base graphics. Once your gra
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   Leonardo's rule, self-similarity and wind-induced stresses in trees (2011)(arxiv.org)

   3 points by jpatrick 11y ago|0 comments
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   by jpatrick 11y ago

   One of the co-authors of that Atlantic article is Richard Sander, who's the leading proponent of the mismatch hypothesis and routinely overstates the evidence for it. His original study is based on outcomes for law students who started