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Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. #LDSforHarris andrewheiss.com
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With Tolkien in the air (bc new season of Rings of Power), here are two blog posts using #rstats to analyze and visualize stuff in Middle Earth: (🧵)

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This is great :)

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Aragorn tells Eowyn that he's 87, which is surprising! What does 87 mean in regular human years? Using #rstatswww.andrewheiss.com/blog/2023/03...

Picture of Aragorn with the caption "There's a 95% chance that I'm between 42 and 59"
Tolkien's original table for converting between Númenórean and human ages
Plot showing how to convert between Dúnedan years and human years
Posterior distributions of predicted human ages at 87 and 210 Dúnedan years
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Andrew Heiss 🍂🎃
@andrew.heiss.phd
Assistant professor at Georgia State University, formerly at BYU. 6 kids. Study NGOs, human rights, #PublicPolicy, #Nonprofits, #Dataviz, #CausalInference. #rstats forever. #LDSforHarris andrewheiss.com
3.4k followers2k following2k posts
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