Marcel Raab

*Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences* with @emstruffolino.bsky.social & @raabm.bsky.social.

🗓️ 21-22 & 28-29 October 2026
🏢 Online
🌐 t1p.de/SequenceAnal...

Join the #sequenceanalyisis #GESISworkshop @gesistraining.bsky.social with @raabm.bsky.social and myself
to describe, visualize & analyze sequences — hands-on in R with real-world examples, November 2025, info training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

This webinar introduced me to the new Python package sequenzo! Like many in the SA community, I currently only use R for my analyses. I tried to harness sequenzo's power from within R and put together a small tutorial that might be interesting for R users: sa-book.github.io/bonus_sequen...

Some good news to brighten up your feed: Our #R package 📦 DemoKin for the demographic analysis of kinship has a new website with extensive documentation and literature 🎉🎈 @mpidr.bsky.social If you don't know it yet, why not check it out? ivanwilli.github.io/DemoKin/inde...

Sequence Analysis - Companion Site: Sequence Analysis Companion website for the little green book

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Need guidance on creating nice sequence plots?

📗 For #TraMineR and #ggseqplot examples, see the tutorials on our book’s companion site (esp. Ch. 2 & 5): sa-book.github.io

📕 ggseqplot vignette: maraab23.github.io/ggseqplot/ar...

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

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Back from #PAA. Saw many sequence analysis applications — not all with great visualization.

No need to overcomplicate: #TraMineR (base R) and #ggseqplot (CRAN update just out) offer solid tools for clear, appealing sequence data viz. @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social

Share on social media Figure 1. Rent change, income change, and rent-income ratios at the bottom and top quintiles of the income distribution. Source: Socio-Economic Panel version 38.1. Note: The second, third, and fourth quintiles are omitted. All measures are adjusted to adult equivalents with the new Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development scale. Monetary values are adjusted for inflation.

📣 new #article

Housing cost burden of migrants and natives across the income distribution.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Key findings
▪️ rent burden is distributed increasingly unequal
▪️ the polarization is more pronounced among migrants
▪️ migrants faced steeper rent hikes than natives

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective To examine young adult women's and men's time use for routine housework when moving out of the parental household. Background From a life-course perspective, establishing an own househol...

I am happy to share my paper about "Young adults' gendered trajectories of routine housework time when leaving home" that I did with @raabm.bsky.social in JMF (@ncfr.bsky.social). Please spread the word! doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

The big genealogical database #FamiLinx, which contains extensive demographic and #kinship information, offers much promise for demographic research but careful sample #selection is necessary. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

It is finally alive!

The almighty database of our mapineq.eu -Horizon Europe project. Design and implementation by @melindacmills.bsky.social and Doug Leisure, hosted at University of Groningen.
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This study presents initial results from the KINMATRIX survey, a large-scale source of ego-centric network data offering an unprecedented level of scope and detail in mapping family relati...

Radiating exuberant euphoria 🥳🎉🥂, I announce that our study with initial results from the #KINMATRIX survey has been published 👉 doi.org/10.1111/jomf.... KINMATRIX is a unique new source of ego-centric network data that offers unprecedented scope and detail in mapping family relations. #Demography

Sociologists agree:

"We find that millionaire tax flight is occurring, but only at the margins of statistical and socioeconomic significance."

doi.org/10.1177/0003...

In our paper, we adapt @joannapepin.bsky.social's visualization of U.S. couples' money arrangements to the German context. Using German Family Panel data, we show how these arrangements vary by cohort and age group. Replication files + high-res plot: github.com/maraab23/Cou... #FReDA #pairfam

I did a visualization of the development of housework time in West and East Germany with the German Time Use Study, 1991-2022. Available from @socarxiv.bsky.social : doi.org/10.31235/osf... Hope someone finds it useful! #sociology #demography

The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025 My next big project is finally taking shape

New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter:

English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025
theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v...

Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025
albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

KINMATRIX: A new data resource for studies of families and kinship www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Still some time to register for the #GESISworkshop
on #SequenceAnalysis in #R in October with
@raabm.bsky.social and myself! More info here training.gesis.org?site=pDetail...

📣 JFR's Impact Factor has again increased since last year and now sits at 2.9 according to the 2024 Journal Citation Report by Clarivate Analytics. #JFamRes #openaccess #OpenScience #sociology #demography

Ich freue mich das gemeinsame Forschungsprojekt mit @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social und Martin Gädecke zu Familienkomplexitäten aus der Perspektive von Kindern und deren Folgen vorzustellen.

Vielen Dank für die Einladung! 😊

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Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research | Home The ICPSR Summer Program offers introductory to advanced courses in statistics, quantitative methods, and data analysis. We train students, faculty, and researchers.

Reminder! Still time to register for a 20-hour online workshop on “Sequenc Aanalysis in the Social Sciences”, July 22, 2024 – July 26, 2024 (9:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (US) at the 2024 @ICPSRSummer, with myself and @raabm.bsky.social! Full program here icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/su...

marquee 0.1.0 - Tidyverse The initial release brings markdown awareness to grid and ggplot2 to allow for rich text formatting in R graphics.

I am super excited to announce the first release of marquee - supercharged markdown support for #ggplot2 (and #rstats graphics in general)

Read all about it here: tidyverse.org/blog/2024/05...

and browse the package site at: marquee.r-lib.org

@raabm.bsky.social and I will host a 20-hour online workshop on “Sequence Analysis in the Social Sciences”, July 22, 2024 – July 26, 2024 (9:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (US) at the 2024 @ICPSRSummer, check the full program here www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/su...

How do teenagers spend their time? 🧐

We use social sequence analysis and high-frequency time-use diaries to identify and visualise typical time-use patterns of teenagers in Germany.

Preprint with @miriamsglrtmr.bsky.social and Anette Fasang
👉 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

{marginaleffects} 0.16.0: A unified interface to interpret results from 100+ statistical and machine learning models in #RStats! Predictions, slopes, differences, ratios & much more! See our new vignettes on Matching, Inverse Probability Weighting & ML: marginaleffects.com

🔥 On Thursday (10/19) at 4 pm CET, the Sequence Analysis Association is hosting a webinar featuring @satuhelske.bsky.social and Matthias Studer, who will discuss recent developments in sequence cluster analysis.
👉 sequenceanalysis.org/webinars/

Great to see that the Journal of Family Research (@familyresearch.bsky.social) is among the group of early adopting #sociology journals on this platform. Follow them to stay updated on new open-access, open-science (i.e., replication material for quantitative papers), peer-reviewed family research

🎵 Research in the #Bluesky with 💎 (#openaccess).
📣 We’re seeking innovative manuscripts in family research, primarily from #sociology and #demography. We value creativity, contribution to knowledge, and state-of-the-art methodology. Join us in advancing the field of family science! #JFR #JFamRes

Reading the decision letter one gets the feeling that it is a bit of a homemade problem

Too old to attend, but happy to promote:
15th Conference of Young Demographers 7–9 February 2024, Prague.
Call for papers: t.co/O7kmzLsBTH website: youngdemographers.github.io/conference.h...