by Art of Counting | Cross Training
Kate Phizackerley announced in her blog yesterday that a WordPress hieroglyph plugin is now in development! This is a big project and has recently been initiated, but once completed, this plugin will provide a very valuable resource for Egypt blogs and web-based...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists doing or wearing, shall we say…interesting things. Some of these will make you guffaw, some will shock you into silence, and some will make you want to track these people down and drown them in a vat of baby oil. One of my...
by Art of Counting | Methods
Cluster analysis as defined by a statistician: A procedure by which subjects, cases, or variables are clustered into groups based on similar characteristics of each. Hierarchical cluster analysis attempts to identify relatively homogenous groups of variables (or...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
In our ongoing series of tourists doing or wearing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will make you chuckle, some will make you see red, and some will make you want to track these people down and spank them with a trowel. At least this one–who was...
by Art of Counting | Results
Sincere thanks to Tom Hardwick for his astute comments and suggestions in the crafting of this two-part post In a previous post, I outlined the basic history and significance of sandals and discussed the apparent usage patterns of royal sandals at Medinet Habu, based...
by Art of Counting | Cross Training
Patternicity—Noun—The tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless noise. This TED talk demonstrates one of the primary reasons why using a quantitative analytical approach for identifying patterns is vastly superior to relying on an...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists wearing or doing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will make you chuckle, some will make you weep, some will make you want to track these people down and beat them with wet noodles. Not only is this one tacky, but she seems...
by Art of Counting | Results
(Sincerest thanks to Tom Hardwick for his astute comments and suggestions during the crafting of this two-part article) You can tell a lot by the shoes someone wears. Context clearly affects the choice of footwear; one pair for dancing, another for traffic court, and...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
In our ongoing series of tourists doing or wearing, shall we say, interesting things…some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and some will make you want to track the person down and torture them with Teletubby videos. This stunning outfit choice is...
by Art of Counting | Methods
There are two primary advanced statistical techniques that have already been applied to selected data from Medinet Habu—factor analysis and cluster analysis. This post will endeavor to explain the insights provided by factor analysis in the examination of visual...
