The Renzo Pomodoro dataset
Estimating how long it will take to complete a task is hard work, and the most common motivation for this work comes from external factors, e.g., the boss, or a...continue reading.
Estimating how long it will take to complete a task is hard work, and the most common motivation for this work comes from external factors, e.g., the boss, or a...continue reading.
Estimating how long it will take to complete a task is hard work, and the most common motivation for this work comes from external factors, e.g., the boss, or a...continue reading.
The Projects chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked; draft pdf available here. A lot of developers spend their time working on projects, and there ought to...continue reading.
The Projects chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked; draft pdf available here. A lot of developers spend their time working on projects, and there ought to...continue reading.
The Ecosystems chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been reworked (I have given up on the idea that this second pass is also where the polishing happens; polishing...continue reading.
During a search for data on programming language usage I discovered Stack Overflow Trends, showing an interesting plot of language tags appearing on Stack Overflow questions (see below). Where was...continue reading.
The process used to generate the pdf of my evidence-based software engineering book has been on my list of things to blog about, for ever. An email arrived this afternoon,...continue reading.
I am someone who regularly uses R, and my interest in programming languages means that on a semi-regular basis spend time reading blog posts about the language. Over the last...continue reading.
The Cognitive capitalism chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book took longer than expected to polish; in fact it got reworked, rather than polished (which still needs to happen, and...continue reading.
It has been just over two years since I release the first draft of the Human cognitive characteristics chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book. As new material was discovered,...continue reading.
I have completed the polishing/correcting/fiddling of the eight statistical analysis related chapters of my evidence-based software engineering book, and an updated draft pdf is now available (download here). The material...continue reading.
So you have read my (draft) book on evidence-based software engineering and want to learn more about the statistical techniques used, but are not interested lots of detailed mathematics. What...continue reading.
In 2012, when I decided to write a book on evidence-based software engineering, R was the obvious system to use for data analysis. At the time, lots of new books...continue reading.
The Source Code chapter of my evidence-based software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). This chapter has suffered from coming last and there is still...continue reading.
The Reliability chapter of my Empirical software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). I have been working on this draft for four months and it...continue reading.
The pile of papers, books and data-sets, relating to previously released draft chapters of my Empirical software engineering book, has been growing, and cluttering up my mind. I decided to...continue reading.
The Projects chapter of my Empirical software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). This material turned out to be harder to bring together than I...continue reading.
The Ecosystems chapter of my Empirical software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). I don’t seem to be able to get away from rewriting everything,...continue reading.
Data plots can sometimes look very dull and need to be jazzed up a bit. Now, nobody’s suggesting that the important statistical properties of the data be changed, but wouldn’t...continue reading.
The Economics chapter of my Empirical software engineering book has been added to the draft pdf (download here). This is a slim chapter, it might grow a bit, but I...continue reading.