Maarten Hermans

@mhermans
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Sociologist, researcher & member @DenktankMinerva: labour relations, quality of work, and open source data analysis.

#SocialDialogue #TradeUnion #Sociology #EmploymentRelations #IndustrialRelations #QualityOfWork #DataVis #Rstats

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1 op 3 werkneemsters ervaart fysiek of verbaal geweld door derden zoals klanten, wanneer de werkgever toelaat dat deze hun prestaties beoordelen. Een gat in de welzijns- en discriminatiewetgeving, schrijft @mhermans #IWD2026 πŸ‘‰ https://www.denktankminerva.be/analyse/2026/3/8/om-een-medewerkster-uit-te-schelden-druk-n

Obsidian Sync now has a headless client, so you can sync vaults to a server without using the desktop app.

Try the open beta:

πŸ‘€ New blog post! πŸ‘€

Ever made a *spaghetti* line chart and wondered how you can make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing at the same time? πŸ“ˆ

Read this blog post: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/accessible-line-chart/

#DataViz #RStats

How to create a more accessible line chart – Nicola Rennie

The default settings for chart software are not guaranteed to be accessible, and often need to be adapted for your own chart. In this blog post, we’ll transform a line chart to make it more accessible and more aesthetically pleasing.

Nicola Rennie

You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files.

Your data, offline, forever, for free.

Obsidian Importer now lets you generate Markdown files from a CSV.

It converts thousands records in seconds and automatically generates a Base that you can use to explore and edit the data.

45 tuchtprocedures, slechts 3 ontslagen proffen: pakken Vlaamse universiteiten toxisch gedrag streng genoeg aan?

De voorbije 10 jaar leidde een tuchtprocedure in de context van grensoverschrijdend gedrag aan de universiteit slechts 3 keer tot ontslag van een professor. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Pano. Hoewel er bijna nooit echt zware sancties volgen na machtsmisbruik, moeten er tijdens het Pano-onderzoek 2 omstreden professoren toch plots vert…
#news #vrtnws #vrt
https://vrtnws.be/p.8e0xl49Ga

Obsidian 1.10 is now available! The mobile app now launches A LOT faster.

We've also made many improvements to Bases:

- New List view to display entries as bulleted or numbered lists.
- New Map view to visualize entries on a map. Install it from the Community plugins directory.
- Initial Bases API lets you create your own views.
- You can now group entries in a base by a given property.
- You can now summarize columns in table view.
- Added keyboard navigation and shortcuts to table view.

For anyone wondering how to make modern maps projected on a globe, here's some reproducible code you can give a spin right now: https://github.com/Robinlovelace/presentations/blob/0746b05fb7fb5d641bb7cfb007188163ef65b993/itf2025.qmd#L307-L357 Context: someone asked how I made the map in the talk I delivered at the ITF-Eurostat conference last week, happy to share it with the world! Credit: Martijn Tennekes and others for the {tmap.mapgl} #rstats package.
Now available in Zotero for iOS: EPUB and webpage snapshot annotation and PDF metadata retrieval https://www.zotero.org/blog/ios-epub-snapshot-annotation-and-pdf-metadata-retrieval/