I just gave a short talk at Noisebridge’s 5 Minutes of Fame on a Dr. Who Postcard project; the code is open sourced on github. See more details at the postcard project page!
Category Archives: Projects
Scatterplots, jQuery, and Class Size
Saturday, November 14, 2009
A couple of days ago, Nathan at FlowingData posted a parallel coordinates plot showing a relationship between student-to-teacher ratio and mean SAT scores. In the comments, a lot of people said that they would have rather seen scatterplots, and also mentioned that the percent of students taking the test could also have been a [...]
Khaaaaaan!
Monday, September 14, 2009
Perhaps in response to passing my dissertation defense (so that I can now look at numbers for fun rather than because it’s actually useful), I have finished modeling “How many a’s do people use in ‘Khaaaaaan!’?” Yep. After the idea was suggested by Kevin Martin, I just couldn’t help myself. If there [...]
Iranian Election Updates!
Friday, August 7, 2009
I’ve finally had some time to finish updating my 2009 Iranian Election Analysis, to the point where I’ve changed the page on math.umd.edu to point here. I’m kind of disappointed to find no real statistical evidence of fraud, but I do like the fact that by looking intensely at the data, you can find [...]
