HTC Vive Cable Management with Ceiling Suspension
I discuss my experience in setting up a ceiling based retractable cable management system for HTC Vive.
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Two Room VR Setup with Three Lighthouses
Through some mishaps in Vive repair process, I found myself as the proud owner of a third light house. The thing has been lying around gathering dust since it arrived. This weekend, I set out to put it to use. I established two rooms with separate tracking through three lighthouses. The setup could not have…
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Quick and Dirty Board Game Inserts
It has been a while since I finished the Last Night on Earth minis (great game btw). I was a bit miffed with how the minis would shift around in the box, rubbing against each other. Dullcote can only protect them so far after all… So I have been thinking of making an insert for the…
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Fog of Love: Initial Impressions
I jumped the gun and ordered the Fog of Love after seeing the AMA with the designer on reddit. The game offers a two player board game in the tone of romantic comedies. This premise was very attractive to me, as we lost our gaming groups in Arizona and with the kids, it was hard…
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Board Game Night at the Library
Today was the first time I joined the board game group at the library! Met real nice people and had lots of fun playing Endeavor together.
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Finished Painting the Zombies of Zombicide: Black Plague
I have been slowly working on the zombicide minis. Finally this week I finished painting the regular zombies and fatties. All that remains are the special infected and the heroes. I guess the game will be ready to play by summer.
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Scholars at Risk – Academics for Peace Campaign
In 2016, I signed a petition in the hopes that our voices as academics would bring peace to my country. The Turkish government labeled me and the other signatories as traitors and have been working hard to quash our voices.
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My Experience with LFE Package and Why Open Source is the Way for Research
I keep talking about using large datasets and how some models take quite long time to run. One of those models is typically two way fixed effects models. While regular econometrics packages like plm are quite good for reasonably large datasets, more and more I find it hard to use with my datasets. Here is…
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Automating Poster Creation with Latex
This semester I will be serving in OU COB Research Colloquium. We organize research presentations in college of business. As part of my duties I was tasked with creating posters. I considered my options and decided that creating new posters every other week was too much work. So I created a tex file that grabs…
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Creating Choice Based Conjoint Manipulations Programmatically with GIMP
I am doing a discrete choice experiment design for a project that we are just starting. The idea is to present screenshots of various app’s in an app store and ask the participants to pick one. For this, we need screenshots of app’s with key variables changed. The problem is that, unless you are careful…
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Finished Last Night on Earth Minis
Tonight I finally finished Last Night on Earth miniatures. I painted the heroes a while back. For a while I was pretty satisfied with the effort. Then I saw Sorastro’s Zombicide painting guide for zombies… Having painted the zombies I thought I was done, but then I saw Consadine’s basic basing guide. Well finally tonight…
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Foamcore Dice Tower
My older daughter is old enough to play simple games (Animal upon Animal, Brandon the Brave) but dice throwing has been a problem. A while back I decided to build a dice tower with the dual purpose of both playing games with kids and to make sure the dice is properly random (no cheating).
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3D plots in R with Plotly
Plotly presents a visually pleasing way to create 3D plots in R and Python.
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If you let them build it!
Presented our paper in Hawaii, the paper was nominated for best paper. The paper is about add-on content.
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Aloha From HICSS 50!
In Hawaii for HICSS 50. So far so good. Have seen old friends, met new friends and am enjoying Panoply security competition. Paper being nominated as best paper does not hurt either.
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Board Games and Miniature Painting
Alright, so far I have been posting about my research and teaching… Now that I have a job that I feel fairly confident about, I think I can actually blog with a bit more liberty. I have been a huge fan of boardgames since I laid my eyes on the “Milyoner” (Turkish knockoff of monopoly)….
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Reserved Instances in Amazon Web Services
I use AWS to run the various scripts used in data collection. I have been paying about $20 each month for a t1 micro instance since my free tier and academic credits ran out. That is quite a price to pay for 1 core and about 600MB ram. Maybe AWS is not the best option…
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Understanding Neural Networks
A few months ago I made a presentation on Tensor Flow for MBA students. The challenge was to simplify the technical underpinnings of the technology sufficiently while preserving a semblance of what it was good for. One particular challenge was visualizing the technology. Showing python code and output was out of the question and at…
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OpenRefine for Data Mangling
I often use data from various sources and sometimes have to get creative about transforming the data into a format that I can use easily. So far I have done this mainly with R (and with Python from time to time). The other day, Dr. Mazzolla pointed to OpenRefine, an application for data clean-up and…
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Writing Better R Code
When I teach R, I always caution the audiences about the quirks of R programming. It is very typical for someone with a background in Java or Python to write code in R that will take forever to execute (like I used to do, and sometimes still do). I warn the students about loops and…
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Surviving and Thriving in Online Labor Markets
I will be presenting our paper, “Surviving and Thriving in Online Labor Markets” this weekend at WISE 2015. Our study aims to uncover the dynamics shaping the online labor markets (freelancer.com, upwork.com, elance.com …), with a focus on the role of country development level on the IT service providers’ ability to survive and earn a…
