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Given the upcoming US elections, several media outlets have shown interest in my research on US presidential height. So did The Economist: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/02/19/in-politics-height-matters.

They definitely improved my graphs:

I should try and see if I can recreate those graphs in R.

Renkse Verweij en ik hebben onlangs een artikel geschreven over ons onderzoek naar kinderloosheid voor de website van Sociale Vraagstukken: Eerst zekerheid, dan pas kinderen

Recentelijk werd ik geïnterviewd voor het Parool over het (jong) krijgen van kinderen: https://www.parool.nl/ps/tom-wordt-jong-vader-en-daar-heeft-iedereen-een-mening-over~b8f8e98a/. De auteur van het stuk, Tom Grosfeld (25) en zijn vriendin (26) verwachten hun eerste kind. Tom beschrijft mooi hoe zijn omgeving reageert. Zijn stuk sluit nauw aan bij mijn onderzoek over sociale invloeden op de kinderkeuze!

Recently, I had a hilarious and interesting interview with Professor Cregan-Reid and Kevin Mousley from the BBC about the historical changes in height and why the Dutch are so tall. You can find the interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct064s

The Groninger municipality organised an amazing hackaton “Hack the educational gap” (see here and here).

Annelene Bloemen, Denise Bouwman, Tina Kretschmer, Ymkje Anna de Vries, and I formed a team. And we won! Probably because we made neat visualisation of the existing data. See slides here.

The Department of Sociology at Groningen celebrated its 80-year existence and a big party was thrown showcasing the diversity of research at our Department through several presentation. This was my talk presenting all members from the Families Lifecourse and Ageing Group, which I am coordinating:

The video is in Dutch. Although the “pause for laughter” at 4.29 after my hilarious joke is in English.

Recently, the Department of Sociology at Groningen celebrated its 80-year existence. Six videos were made as part of this celebration, showing the diversity of research at our Department. This video was made for the Families Lifecourse and Ageing Group, which I am coordinating:

I recently had to make an interactive visualisation of some twitter-data. Here I’ll explain how I went about it. rtweet Getting twitter data is reasonably easy once you have the rtweet package going, although there are certainly some steps that you have to go through to set-up this package (with respect to the API authorization). You can read about these steps here. We’ll also use the tidyverse-package (as always, I will rely heavily on ggplot that is within the tidyverse).

I am fortunate enough to have been nominated for the New Scientist Wetenschapstalent 2018. The ‘winner’ will be determined by a committee and by popular vote (how scientific!). You can vote here if you think my research is good, or if you think I am not half-bad as a researcher.

For a quick Dutch video of my research, see:

Testing whether we have to draw e numbers from uniform distribution for the sum of numbers to be bigger than one