I’ve been revisiting the various scripts I wrote to analyze my thesis data, so I can use them again on a new dataset. The problem is, I’m finding it both easier and harder than I expected to reconstruct what I did. The “easy” part is due to the fact that I was apparently totally anal [...]
Posts under ‘software tools’
web applications
Alina Lungeanu and I started collecting data last week on our experiment! I don’t want to say too much about the hypotheses, etc. in case potential participants google me and find this blog post, so instead today I’m writing about why I’m glad I’m not a web application developer. For the experiment we are using [...]
productivity
well, the paper is submitted. but man, i NEVER want to do that again. and by “that” i mean write a single-author paper in about a week. i’d been working on analysis (along with all my other dissertation- and work-related stuff) for months, but when we returned from the holiday weekend — where i tried [...]
thinking about software
i’ve been writing some code lately. well, scripting really, mostly to get data into a useful format and then do something with it — nothing really complicated. i wish i was faster at it, but the path i chose as an undergrad did not give me a lot of programming practice. my basic problem is [...]
on backing up
i’ve been thinking a lot about backups lately, and have been inspired to make sure my dissertation is backed up so that if anything were to happen to my laptop all the work i’ve done won’t just disappear. when i worked in industry, it was somebody else’s job to make sure my laptop backed up [...]
