About this blog

This blog has brief posts with quantitative analysis of topics in social history, mostly from China and Taiwan, alongside tutorials on how to get these results with the datasets I used with R. I started it as a space to collate and improve on resources I was writing for my students at Newcastle, but others might find it useful too. It’s a work in progress; there will be typos and other mistakes here and there. Please feel free to get in touch with questions and comments.

joseph.lawson@ncl.ac.uk