Motivation This post was inspired by my wife who used the GPS data from her Strava app to plot her running routes during 2020. Since I don’t run nearly as much as I used to, I need to go back to when I was training for the NYC marathon to ...

One of my guilty pleasure TV shows is MTV’s The Challenge. Debuting in the late 90s, the show pitted alumni from The Real World and Road Rules against each other in a series of physical events. Now on its 36th season, its found new popularity by importing challengers from ...

TL;DR While this is the oldest Senate we’ve ever had, its not the most non-representative Senate when compared to the age distribution of the US Population The most representative Senate was in the 1970s as the average Senator age declined while the average age in the US increased. ...

TL;DR Using Pythagorean expectation we should expect the Baltimore Ravens to be Super Bowl Champions Using a Bradley-Terry model we should expect the Kansas City Chiefs to be Super Bowl champions Seems like it will be a good year for the AFC It’s Playoff Time in the NFL!. ...

Motivation While browsing Reddit’s r/DataIsBeautiful sub-reddit I came across a post from Fabio Votta showing a beeswarm plot of US County vote share in the 2020 Election. Having never seen a beeswarm plot before I wanted to come up with an excuse to try it out. As an NHL ...

Motivation With the 2020 Election wrapping up and a renewed discussion about the merits of the Electoral College I’ve been thinking more about the system and why it might be the way it is. While I understand the rationale of why doing a complete popular vote would have unintended consequences, ...

Typically when thinking of pattern mining people tend to think of Market Basket Analysis with the conventional example showing people typically buy both Beer and Diapers in the same trip. When order doesn’t matter this is called Association Rules Mining and is implemented by the arules package in R. ...

Within the United States, especially these last few years, there has been an increased focus on “fake news” or “bias in the media”. Fox News typically is the poster-child for right-wing bias and everything else seems to be the poster child for left-wing bias. While this is just a humble ...

TL;DR There really isn’t a best day to get married as there isn’t much differentiation between various days. Both as part of this analysis and in life. Do what’s best for you and your relationship. However, if ALL you care about is both being married on ...

At 8pm on March 22nd, 2020, the “New York State on PAUSE” executive order became effective and New York City went on lockdown until June 8th, when the Phase 1 reopening began. During this time usage of the public transit systems had a sudden drop as all non-essential services needed to close. ...

TL;DR Instagram - Tiktok = Photos, Photographers and Selfies Tiktok - Instagram = Witchcraft and Teens but read the whole post to find out why! Purpose The original intent of this post was to learn to train my own Word2Vec model, however, as is a running theme.. my laptop is ...

TL;DR Instagram - Tiktok = Photos, Photographers and Selfies Tiktok - Instagram = Witchcraft and Teens but read the whole post to find out why! Purpose The original intent of this post was to learn to train my own Word2Vec model, however, as is a running theme.. my laptop is ...

A few month’s back Mrs. JLaw and I were discussing baby names (purely for academic purposes) and it got me thinking about how have popular names changed over time. It was a particular interest to me as someone who had a name that was somewhat popular for a while ...

A few month’s back Mrs. JLaw and I were discussing baby names (purely for academic purposes) and it got me thinking about how have popular names changed over time. It was a particular interest to me as someone who had a name that was somewhat popular for a while ...