Daniel Larsson

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  • Perceptions of Class Conflicts

    In this blog post I will investigate peoples perception of class conflicts in Sweden between 1992 and 2009. The data I am going to use is International Social Survey Project (ISSP). The data is free to download — but you need to register. Data can be found here: https://www.gesis.org/en/issp/home. To investigate class conflicts is interesting…

  • Motivation and organisations

    A really interestong youtube video about motivation and organisation (and some Linux):

  • Save plots using ggplot2

    This is how you save plots to hard drive when using gglpot. Uisng 300 dpi as resolution should be enough for publication. You have to give the height and width (five is good but use what fits you). You don’t need to scale it down to 0.8. ggsave(”~/gitlab/moralisk.org/p1.png”, dpi = 300, scale = 0.8, height…

  • New film on SPSS

    I usually don’t use SPSS. My main program for doing statistics is R. But when teaching I sometimes need to use SPSS. SPSS can be quite hard to use since there are so many options, and you need to use i a lot be familiar with the program. I there made a video showing various…

  • Emacs — how I use it

    I use Emacs — every day. Emacs is a text editor that is complex, in fact so complex that it is more of an environment. It is in general an environment for programming. So why do I use Emacs? I am not a programmer, I am a social scientist. Well, I originally used Emacs as…

  • A nice theme for the desktop?

    A nice theme for the desktop is not super important. OK, it has to look decent, but on my main computer I hardly see the desktop theming, or the icons. I just see the application I use. When the main application is Emacs, and the second a web browser, themes of the desktop does not…

  • Presentation for secondary school pupils

    I made a presentation today that I will have on Tuesday. The audience will be pupils from a local secondary school, and the topic will be basic criminology. You can see the presentation from here.

  • Ram is there to be used!

    R can be ram-hungry!

  • No time to write

    … but some words of wisdom: slow is smooth… smooth is fast!

  • 2017 coming to an end

    2017 is coming to and end. Usually I don’t care much about these things, but this year it is symbolic — 2017 was a really bad year. The picture above represents it rather well. One crisis after another followed each other. I further had more teaching than planed. In total I did not had much…