Category Archives: Data-Driven Research

New DR2 Paper is out on Synthese

Posted on July 27, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

We are pleased to announce that a new paper by DR2 co-founders Guido Bonino and Paolo Tripodi, together with another DR2 affiliate member, Paolo Maffezioli, has been published on Synthese: “Logic in analytic philosophy: a quantitative analysis”. Abstract: Using quantitative … Continue reading →

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Building a flow map from scrap

Posted on June 1, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

By Emiliano Tolusso Maps are a pleasant and handy way of visualizing spatial data. Choropleths especially are widely employed in the visual description of spatial phenomena. However, as much as traditional maps are a popular solution, they suffer from a … Continue reading →

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Practices and Malpractices. What the Analysis of Retractions can Tell us about the Research Ethos of the Humanities

Posted on May 18, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

By Eugenio Petrovich In the last decades, the number of retractions of scientific articles has significantly grown in all disciplines (Steen et al., 2013). Even prestigious journals such as Science are not immune to such growth (Wray & Andersen, 2018). … Continue reading →

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DR2-INTERVIEWS: Interview with Peter De Bolla

Posted on May 4, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

With this interview we open the series of the “DR2-Interviews”, a new section of this blog dedicated to questions and answers about the use of quantitative methods. A few months ago one of our members, Paolo Babbiotti, was in Cambridge … Continue reading →

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Drawing maps with R. A basic tutorial

Posted on March 23, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

By Eugenio Petrovich Maps are a powerful tool to visualize information. Plotting data on a map can reveal trends and patterns that are difficult to spot by inspecting a spreadsheet. Maps are also very useful to communicate information to the … Continue reading →

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DR2 at the Vienna station

Posted on March 9, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

The papers presented by DR2 members Eugenio Petrovich, Guido Bonino and Paolo Tripodi have been accepted at the ninth annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytic philosophy, to be held in Vienna on July … Continue reading →

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Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas

Posted on February 10, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

The following papers, delivered at the first DR2 Conference (Turin 2017) and then submitted to Open Peer Review, have now been accepted by the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas and will appear on the next issue of the journal: Eugenio Petrovich … Continue reading →

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A short and informal replication of Petrovich and Buonomo 2018

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Marco Viola

We receive and gladly publish this post from Maximilian Noichl, a MA student at the University of Vienna (check his website and his recent publication). I recently came across a very interesting study by Eugenio Petrovich and Valerio Buonomo (2018), … Continue reading →

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A quantitative history of “Philosophy of Science”

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Marco Viola

Three reseachers from the University of Québec, Montréal – Christophe Malaterre, Jean-François Chartier, and Davide Pulizzotto (the latter also being an affiliate member of DR2 group) have recently published an intriguing paper entitled What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Science? … Continue reading →

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The fabric of Knowledge

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Marco Viola

During Paolo Tripodi’s History of Philosophy II course (part of the Philosophy International Curriculum at the University of Turin), on May 21-22, 2019, Eugenio Petrovich (University of Siena) delivered two invited lectures, which he entitled “The Fabric of Knowledge. Investigating contemporary philosophy by … Continue reading →

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