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Playing with R: unrolling conversation

March 31, 2023 Leave a comment

A lot of our recent work revolves around working with conversational data, and one thing that’s struck me is that there are no easy ways to create compelling visualizations. In the Elementary Particles of Conversations project we’re aiming to change that. Here’s a sneak peek.

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Posted in: doi, R Filed under: rstats, visualization

Always plot your data

November 6, 2021 Leave a comment

Always plot your data. We’re working with conversational corpora and looking at timing data. What do you do when distributions look off?

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Posted in: Academia, Threads, Visualization Filed under: rstats, visualization

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