“Regrets? I've had a few. There is a lot of work in working it out for yourself.” On learning quantitative methods by trial and error, with the emphasis v much on error. 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/s...
When I started working on witchcraft cases in France from 1790-1940, I knew I wanted to count them. This, of course, was my first mistake. The oldest version I have of the Excel spreadsheet I built to...
Ooh - this looks v useful!
📌 (This is the first time I've tried this workaround bookmark thing, so hopefully, I'm doing it right.)
This is masterful
This is very good and more people should try to do it instead of being scared of excel
When I did my MA (sadly a few years ago now) Warwick had a compulsory module 'IT for Historians'. That's where I learnt some v basic quantative stuff & how to use excel for analysis. 1/
this is the historian's equivalent to the first chapter of my book _Poetry's Data_, called "How We Count." In my field, part of the reason, part of the reason this is not taught is because *it does not count* as a viable methodology, despite the fact that we quantify *all the damn time.*
Sounds like my PhD. It's really not taught, and it's so hard to know who you can turn to.
Actually need an MA in Excel to do basic admin. Bring back older marksheets
The missing lesson: one line of data takes 1000 years
error has been a good if painful teacher I've found. Here's another one, when graphing in excel, be very careful about column selection and about what's "calling" to what, if you are multi-column sorting like me.
