Writing

A couple of years ago I started Research Musings: a Substack to share analytics built on Dimensions.ai (my employer’s bibliometric database), alongside reflections on the research community and, increasingly, on using AI in research and analytics.
Check the Research Musings page for more details on recurring threads, like conversational bibliometrics.
To write the newsletter I built a method for getting Claude to draft in my voice: not perfectly, but reliably faster; Interviewing yourself gives some details. And because visualisation has always been part of my work, I have extended Tufte’s visual grammar with two extensions: Tufte’s extensions.

Research Musings

Substack on the mechanics of research: how knowledge is made, measured, and mediated.

Interviewing yourself

A method for building a writing guide so an AI drafts in your voice, not its own.

Tufte’s extensions

Extension to Tufte’s chart grammar: small multiples and bumped stack bar.