Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Relationship between Union Membership and Income Inequality in the US

One of the theoretical benefits of labor unions is that they boost incomes overall for the majority of workers. Do the data support this?
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

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How Has The Stock Market Performed Under Each President?

I was curious what the actual yield was under each president, so here it is...


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Stock Market Variability By President

Has the stock market been abnormally chaotic under Trump?
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Monday, November 19, 2018

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Comparing 2014 And 2018 Exit Polls

I wrote a simple tool that compares CNN's 2014 and 2018 midterm exit poll data.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

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Who Were The House Midterm Voters In Each Party?

I made a simple tool that converts CNN's exit poll numbers into voter demographics for each party.
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Saturday, November 3, 2018

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How Do You Make A Biased Coin Fair?

Imagine you have a coin that is biased towards heads, and you want to make a fair (50/50) decision with it. What can you do?
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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How To Customize Plotly's Modebar

There's a little bar with buttons that appears when you hover at the top of a plotly graph. It is called the 'modebar'. There is essentially no documentation on customizing it, so I've typed up what I've done to help the next person who needs this.

add button to plotly modebar


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Monday, October 8, 2018

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Role Of Luck In Fantasy Football

Luck is a massive factor in fantasy football...
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Friday, October 5, 2018

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Why Does Mars Appear To Move Backwards Sometimes

From Earth, Mars appears to move backwards sometimes. How does this happen if it's in an elliptical orbit around the Sun?
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

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Why Is Overfitting Dangerous

Imagine you have some measurements and you want to approximate an underlying model for them. Shouldn't you pick the one that most closely matches the data?
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Friday, September 28, 2018

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How Do I Convert An Election Poll Into A Win Probability

You normally see polls as something like 51% candidate A, 47% candidate B, and 2% other. How do you estimate a win probability from that?
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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Understanding Half-Life

The rate at which radioactive atoms decay can be given as the 'half-life' and I've run into a couple of misconceptions around that so I tried simulating it.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

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I Fell Prey To Selection Bias

These things are sneaky and I got caught in one that I feel is worth typing up...
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