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Review: Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

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Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature by Matthew L. Jockers My rating: 5 of 5 stars Engaging writing, with code samples and practices. As for programming, I thought the code quality was somewhat low or sloppy, but Jockers is not a software developer by trade. While reading, I did have a few ideas to solve some text-matching issues across systems, and generally, I found the lack of discipline in the author's approach conducive to flexible thinking about using techniques with R. View all my reviews

Patents Per Capita and Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

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Thinking about social dimensions and innovation, it occurred to me that there might be a relationship with masculinity, but then quickly dismissed it, considering it much more likely to be predicated on science/math education. Even then, other cultural elements might be more likely correlated. What follows is an exploration of various correlations with patents per capita. Although Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions did have a significant correlation with patents per capita, somewhat surprisingly, PISA scores by country, education, nor average IQ, had a strong relationship with patent production, although if Asia was included, statistically it would. Notes: I often exclude Asia from analyses, as the initial driver of this work was looking at cultures that are similar, to tease out social effects. That is also why I ignore looking at all countries, as some relationships across the entire world disappear when limited to just developed economies. As an example, the value of work and