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Following on from my previous post about my data workflow, I outline my basic writing workflow here. As mentioned in the previous post, …
4 min read research

First of all, I use Scapple as a tool to organise my thoughts, brainstorm, and plan my work (background on the figure above). Most of …
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Over the past two years I’ve used R within RStudio environment as my only data analysis/visualisation application for my …
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I have been using GitHub to collaborate/share data analysis (and a bit of writeup) with my co-authors/collaborators for the last year …
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BBC News wrote “Climate compensation schemes ‘failing to reach poorest’” covering our recently published paper …
4 min read fieldwork, publications, research

As academic researchers we mostly worry about research ‘outcome’ as in ‘result’ — because that is what gets …
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Notes from a rural study site Antenina Commune, North-Eastern Madagascar, 6 February 2015 Every time I come to the field in Madagascar …
7 min read fieldwork, musings

All of the WP6 in-depth sites are purposively selected based on a set of criteria, such as their distance from the protected areas (new …
4 min read fieldwork

The teacher, the porter and the translator Moramanga, 21 August 2014 He kept repeating the word mahafinaritra (pronounced maaf-na-tra — …
4 min read musings

What proportion of individual income goes into bribes in Madagascar?

‘We simply do not know’ is the answer to above …

6 min read musings