Interested in some ambiguous results about the nature of mind-wandering during working memory in online environments? Come see my poster and chat! "The Effect of Mind-Wandering and Cognitive Load on Working Memory Performance in Online and In-Person Experiments" (2300) #psynom21

Day 1: Part-to-whole #30DayChartChallenge Trying to catch up with some quick plots and rapid-fire tweets. Collegiate sports expenditures and revenues by gender. #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 2: Pictogram #30DayChartChallenge How great of a dog is the underrated dachshund? The data confirm my fifth grade essay on this exact topic. #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 3: Historical #30DayChartChallenge I'm currently reading Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs (good book, highly recommend!) and thought the whaling industry would provide a good historical dataset. Data from WhalingHistory.org #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 3: Flora #30DayChartChallenge Where are plants going extinct? Data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

My review looking at different (or maybe the same?) types of consolidation was recently accepted! "Examining the relationship between working memory consolidation and long-term consolidation" link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Day 5: Slopes #30DayChartChallenge and #TidyTuesday How have the coverage topics of newly-founded local news organizations changed? Data from Project Oasis. #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 6: Our World in Data #30DayChartChallenge Safe water access globally Data from Our World in Data #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Angelika Stefan To mix up long lecture, today I’m trying something new: in-class listening to ~five of minutes of podcast beginning at 16:40 on how Nightingale harnessed power of data visualization. Will show Kelly Cotton #rstats recreation, too. — timharford.com/2021/03/cautio… — x.com/kllycttn/statu…

Day 7: Physical #30DayChartChallenge How long are the very "physical"ly-demanding ultra trail races? Data from the International Trail Running Association #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 8: Mountains #30DayChartChallenge Distributions of the elevations of the 58 mountains in Colorado > 14000ft elevation. Data taken from Kaggle #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 9: Statistics #30DayChartChallenge NYC commuter statistics, from the US Census Data taken from the American Community Survey #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 10: Experimental #30DayChartChallenge NASA data about Near-Earth Objects Data taken from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, NASA #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 11: Circular #30DayChartChallenge Traffic on the NYC bridge & tunnels. Data taken from the MTA, NYC Open Data I'm not quite happy with the look of plot, but happy that I completed it. #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 12: Economist theme #30DayChartChallenge Density plot showing the % of deaths attributed to indoor air pollution yearly and mean per decade. Data taken from the Our World in Data #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Day 13: Correlation #30DayChartChallenge How do energy and danceability relate to song popularity for the tracks on the top Spotify playlists? #Rstats code: github.com/kellycotton/30…

Congrats to my student Kelly Cotton for her latest publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics looking at the relationship between creativity and working memory! link.springer.com/article/10.375…

Successfully defended my dissertation, and so grateful for my committee & so many other people who made this possible!

Making sure your assumptions are met is a key part of making appropriate statistical inference. In a recent #psynomBRM paper, Itamar Shatz shows why you should check–not just test–these assumptions. Post by Kelly Cotton & Raunak Pillai featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/why-you-should…

You might not care about 1st impressions but does your brain? A recent EEG study finds enhanced early visual processing to socially dominant faces - even milliseconds matter for 1st impressions. #psynomCABN paper by Alan Pegna et al. post by Kelly Cotton wp.me/p8IxYp-2sO