Author Archives: robayedavies

Getting started in R – Why R?

Posted on April 13, 2013 by robayedavies

I will be sharing how to get started in R, using R-Studio. Most R blogs (see R bloggers) include a ‘getting started’ entry and this will be my first (autobigraphical) version of ‘getting started’, built around my answers to the … Continue reading →

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The blank screen reminds you that the mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) that allows you to point-and-click to get things done on a computer is not how things have always got done: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnseb/6448275739/ [my first computer was a BBC B … Continue reading →

Posted on April 12, 2013 by robayedavies | Leave a comment

Getting started – Learning how to learn

Posted on April 11, 2013 by robayedavies

Getting help, in R, is about other people: http://www.r-bloggers.com/r-and-social-media/

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Using DMDX to collect data

Posted on April 11, 2013 by robayedavies

Researchers in influential psycholinguistics labs often use the DMDX application to collect data: its free, its flexible, and its well supported by its authors. The fact that it is free ensures  we remove one barrier to the reproducibility of our … Continue reading →

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Getting normative data for words

Posted on April 11, 2013 by robayedavies

The easiest step is to get data we need from the English Lexicon Project (ELP). We will want information on frequency (there are several measures, we will be using the log context distinctiveness (CD) measure from the SUBTLEX database; see … Continue reading →

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What they call workflow

Posted on April 10, 2013 by robayedavies

[Password protected version of this post, under resources, with downloadable example files] Many researchers talk about workflow. This refers to the series of steps involved in completing an investigation: going from intention to paper, to paraphrase the title of Levelt’s … Continue reading →

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Productivity – effectiveness – Getting Things Done

Posted on February 19, 2013 by robayedavies

Following my own advice, I am going to work more systematically to be a more effective research, where being effective is defined, for now, as *doing the right thing* not doing things right (after Drucker) and the steps to being … Continue reading →

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Santa Cruz sunset

Posted on February 18, 2013 by robayedavies

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Santa Cruz CA, July 2012

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Getting things done

Posted on February 18, 2013 by robayedavies

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/peter_drucker.html see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-Executive-Classic-Drucker-Collection/dp/0750685077 Essentially, effectiveness is about *doing the right thing” – this is a lesson that really should be considered. I think one must learn … Continue reading →

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What boosts vocabulary, life in school or in work? It appears to be work

Posted on February 18, 2013 by robayedavies

Interesting comment by Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution on the new James Flynn book on IQ gains. What boosts vocabulary, life in school or in work? It appears to be work

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