Blog

Here’s what I’ve been doing recently.

Tutorial: Correlations in Composite Indicators

A tour through the implications of correlations, their relation to information, and how much should you worry about it anyway?
March 3, 2025
12 min

Tutorial: How To Select Indicators

Criteria and considerations
January 3, 2025
7 min

Tutorial: Building a Conceptual Framework

How to unpack a complex concept and model it using a composite indicator.
October 1, 2024
6 min

Tutorial: What are Composite Indicators?

All about indicators, scoreboards and the whats and whys of composite indicators.
August 5, 2024
6 min

12 Lessons learned from four years of freelancing

Nuggets of wisdom?
July 10, 2024
15 min

Launch of the {composer} composite indicator app

Finally the launch of this open-source web app for interactively building composite indicators!
May 10, 2024
14 min

Update and release of the European Skills Index

A few technical details.
March 1, 2024
9 min

2023 Wrap Up

Looking back on a very busy and interesting year.
December 31, 2023
7 min

Updates on the FIND composite indicators app

Wrapping up the composite indicators app project for release.
December 30, 2023
1 min

Updates of the WEF Nexus Index

Updating the WEF Nexus Index with the latest data.
November 20, 2023
1 min

European Innovation Scoreboard

In which we put in a bid to update and maintain this index.
November 17, 2023
2 min

Expert group meeting on quality infrastructure in Vienna

November 14-15, Vienna, Austria. Expert group meeting on the QI4SD Index in Vienna with representatives from INetQI organisations and national institutions.
November 15, 2023
2 min

2023 Wrap Up

October 3-4, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A workshop to discuss the QI4SD Index.
October 5, 2023
1 min

COIN training on composite indicators

My lectures on robustness in composite indicators and the COINr package.
September 28, 2023
2 min

Global emissions data set published

We published the JRC’s annual report on greenhouse gas emissions of all countries in the world.
September 8, 2023
1 min

A2SIT App launched for UNHCR

The Admin-2 Severity Index Tool was completed in its beta state and launched for UNHCR Guatemala.
July 28, 2023
2 min

Freelance data science: a two-year review

The story of a two-year freelance journey and its pros and cons.
December 16, 2022
13 min

New projects plus website

Recently I built a website, and I’m starting several new projects soon. Things starting to get very busy!
December 5, 2022
2 min

I don’t like MS Teams

Why I really really don’t like Microsoft Teams in one short rant 🙂
December 1, 2022
3 min

Paper for COINr published

A little bit about my new paper and why it is a Good Thing.
October 11, 2022
2 min

Open peer review: a better way?

Using Github and transparent open review to improve the peer review process.
September 14, 2022
14 min

Genesis

New personal website launched! 🚀
September 8, 2022
1 min

Occam’s Razor

And its many applications.
March 1, 2022
8 min
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