Potpourri: Statistics #53

473. Why so much hate against propensity score matching?474. R for Political Data475. Data Science Foundations: Know your data. Really, really, know it476. P-values 101: An attempt at an intuitive but mathematically correct explanation477. Merging Comparative Manifesto Project and ParlGov cabinet composition data at the party-level478. Choropleth maps with R - the Belgian edition479. Web Data Scraping480. Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable481. Chidi's budget and utility: doing algebra and calculus with R and yacas482. ~~FR2E: Intro to R Using Afrobarometer Data~~483. The New Heuristics484. You Need to Start Branding Your Graphs. Here's How, with ggplot!

R Screencast Tutorials (from Quantitative Social Science Data with R: An Introduction): 485. Introduction to R and R Studio486. Finding Data487. Data Management488. Variables & Manipulation489. Univariate & Descriptive Statistics490. Visualising Data491. Hypothesis Testing492. Bivariate Analysis493. Linear Regression & Model Building494. OLS Assumptions & Diagnostic Testing495. Putting it all Together