Guest blog by Tony Kwasnica (Penn State) talking about CoVID-19 analysis with some plots by me. Tracking the progress of CoVID-19 and our fight against it has become an all-consuming exercise for many people as …
Google recently released some mobility data. Skimming through the PDFs on the website shows you how much people have stopped moving around and started sticking to home. I wanted to know what that relationship looked …
Many people are aware of Kaggle for their data competitions. However, they also have tasks which can put an open call out for helping transform data, answer questions, etc. They have a fairly rich dataset …
I stumbled onto a pretty great visualization of American land use today: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/ The initial plot with everything on it is a little hard to get at first – the plot doesn’t have a legend …
A recent NBER Working Paper has found that the review process doesn’t really help much. Well, really what they find is that going through the review process doesn’t lead to significantly more citations in a …
UPDATE May 1, 2019: To keep this all in one place I’ve decided to simply modify/update this post. Over the years students have asked me how they can get more Python skills. In the past …
Welcome to 2019 everyone! (Yes, I know it’s February but I’ve been doing things. Give me a break.) This year I thought it would be fun to learn JavaScript. “Why?”, you ask? Because I’m a …
This has been a week of education for me. Three separate random events reminded me of how much I still have to learn about the world. I was wandering around the interwebs yesterday and came …
During the fall semester I teach a class called Supply Chain Analytics. We teach modeling skills, data cleaning, optimization (using both Solver and OpenSolver), and other random topics in Excel. We then introduce visualization using …
In a recent post, I gave some advice on how to learn Python for free. At the top of the post I lightly touched on the Python 2 vs Python 3 debate. I code in …
