Cine-phylo
I recently came across a blog post which analyzed a collection of popular children's books and clustered them thematically. I felt this...
Airbnb and the City
Chicago Business Journal reported on the surge in Airbnb rentals 2015 nearly doubling the previous year. Taking a minute to look at the...
Where there's smoke...
One of my favorite crime fiction writers and chronicler of the ongoing War on Drugs, Don Winslow recently wrote about the externalities...
Flowing Independence
I developed a new work sample to explore Sankey diagrams and examine colonialism through history. The chart below is fully interactive:...
Over 40 years, 150,000+ counting
The University of Maryland (UMD) has a substantial dataset on acts of terrorism dating back to 1970. Their research has documented over...
USA, USA, PCA
Kaggle support a wide variety of open-source datasets, and their collection of election data is trove of great material. One of their...
Another Layer to Mapping Police Violence
A FiveThirtyEight dot com recently released a podcast episode with the founder of Mapping Police Violence (check it out here). Mapping...
Presidential Candidate Deep Dive: "What are they saying?"
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have logged countless hours in front of a podium the past several months. This provides an opportunity...
US Gun Violence - Not Down Under
In 1996, Australia experienced a mass shooting where 35 lives were taken at the now-called Port Arthur Massacre. That year, the country...
