Kieran Healy
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
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Mixed on BibDesk
I tried using BibDesk to manage that stuff in the GUI (and store PDFs alongside the references) but it didn't take.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Uses LaCie Starck drive
But it failed miserably and has now been replaced by a 1TB LaCie Starck drive.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Uses Skim
The right-hand monitor is for looking at output, either PDFs displayed using Skim or graphs and figures produced during data analysis.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
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Uses ESS
ESS is an add-on to Emacs that allows you to do your data analysis inside the editor. It works with several statistics packages, but I do all my data work using it together with R.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Disliked Mighty Mouse
I use the Mighty Mouse, which I don't particularly care for, and Apple's USB keyboard (the flat one, with the numeric keypad), which is tolerable but not great.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Uses pandoc
If a document is going to be simple (a review, a lecture, a letter, etc), I usually write it in Markdown. This can be converted to pretty much any useful format by way of Pandoc.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Mixed on emacs
There are many things I dislike about the writing/data/coding setup I use. Emacs carries so much baggage with it, it's tiresome.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Loved Keynote
I use Keynote for lectures and presentations. It's one of the best pieces of software Apple makes.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Uses MacFUSE
MacFUSE makes it easy to have my office machine or various servers conveniently available.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Uses LaunchBar
LaunchBar has a lot more functionality than I actually make use of.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Loved Anti-Social
Fred Stutzman's two little apps, Freedom and Anti-Social, are increasingly necessary for my well-being.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Loved Freedom
Fred Stutzman's two little apps, Freedom and Anti-Social, are increasingly necessary for my well-being.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Liked Crashplan
After a few failed attempts at finding a good automatic offsite backup solution I recently began using Crashplan to mirror my wife's office computer on mine, and vice versa. It seems to be working out pretty well.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Loved 1Password
1Password is the add-on I would miss most if it went away.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Liked SuperDuper
I clone disks with SuperDuper. (Their customer support is terrific, by the way.)
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Loved Dropbox
DropBox is terrific and I use it more and more.
usesthis.com 17 Oct 2010
Where they publish
Site kieranhealy.org His site: research, blog posts, data visualisation.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
Mastodon @kjhealy@mastodon.social His Mastodon account.
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- A good day to only be hosting static sites. 21 Oct 2026
- The decoupling of outlet from impact in American sociology. 19 Oct 2026 kieranhealy.org
- News of a $25M Ballroom Bribe from Apple. $25M from Nvidia too. $10M from each of Microsoft, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and Rocket Mortgage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/10/15/secret-documents-reveal-donors-behind-330-million-trumps-ballroom/, 15 Oct 2026 archive.ph
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- Dogs of New York, or, the Rise of the Goldendoodles. 14 Oct 2026 kieranhealy.org
- They should just go Full Clickbait. “This Door in your Home was Unlocked …”. “This Living Room Light has a New Status”. “Garage Door Breaks Silence”. 14 Oct 2026
- @siracusa I saw this miniature/shooting model today having coincidentally just randomly listened to an @incomparable episode that you’re on about the Blade Runner sequel. 11 Oct 2026
- TIL Buddy Holly’s widow, María Santiago, is still alive. 11 Oct 2026
- C-3PO tape dispenser (1980). 11 Oct 2026
- “This concept demeans us both” 10 Oct 2026
- Steven Lukes’s “The Diversity of Morals”. 8 Oct 2026 kieranhealy.org
- Everything is fine over there 29 Dec 2022
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GitHub @kjhealy R packages, Emacs starter kit, teaching material.
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- nycmaps — A collection of sf objects and related tibbles for making maps of New York City 19 Oct 2026
- kieranhealy.hugo — The source code to http://kieranhealy.org 19 Oct 2026
- New reponycosm — OpenStreetMap Features for New York City 19 Oct 2026
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- New reponycpluto 18 Oct 2026
- kjhealy.r-universe.dev 18 Oct 2026
- nycdogs — New York City dog licenses and bite incidents by zip code 14 Oct 2026
- mptc 8 Oct 2026
- nzbirths-monthly 5 Oct 2026
- international-arrivals 3 Oct 2026
- myriad — Themes for ggplot, using the Adobe Myriad typeface. http://kjhealy.github.io/myriad/ 3 Oct 2026
- nycdemog 18 Sept 2026
- mptc_oecd 24 Aug 2026
- socviz — Support files for a data visualization course and book 21 Aug 2026
- noaa_ncei 15 Jul 2026
- pandoc-templates — Some templates for Pandoc. 12 Jul 2026
- nyc-skyline 5 Jun 2026
- nycha — Data on the New York City Housing Authority 19 May 2026
- nycsets — NYC Film Permits Data 16 May 2026
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