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. I drew lots of inspiration from Sorastro's tutorials in painting the mini's. Of... Continue Reading →
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. Many of my colleagues have lost their jobs and others were jailed. Now the... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
Foamcore Dice Tower
Azade 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). I finished painting... Continue Reading →
3D plots in R with Plotly
Plotly presents a visually pleasing way to create 3D plots in R and Python.
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.