Thursday, May 2, 2019

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Do Stocks Perform Better After a Gain or a Loss?

Simple question...do stocks do better the day after stocks go up or the day after stocks go down?
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Sunday, April 21, 2019

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How to Make Amazing Shrimp and Grits

I often order shrimp and grits when we get seafood, and the one at Salt Traders in Round Rock, TX inspired me to figure out how to make it well. Here is my Salt Traders shrimp and grits recipe attempt.



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Friday, April 19, 2019

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Real Life Examples of Various Distributions

You might have heard of 'normal', 'poisson', and other 'distributions' What real-life situations result in those?
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

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Real S&P 500 Returns


I took a crack at visualizing actual returns for long-term, steady investments in the S&P 500.

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Thursday, April 4, 2019

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Which Planet is Closest to Earth on Average?

I realized I didn't actually know which planet is closet to Earth. I'd guess Mercury since its orbital period is so small, but I looked at the data and summarized some results here.
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

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What Was the (Statistically) Worst NFL MVP Season of All Time?

In analyzing MVP winners, I found a few that seem off based on their stats that year.
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Saturday, March 16, 2019

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Simple Algorithm for Classifying Curves

I needed to classify curves recently and the tutorials I found for classification algorithms all used single points instead of curves. I settled on something crude but effective for my use case.
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Saturday, March 9, 2019

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Which Current Quarterbacks Will Make the Hall of Fame?

I took a stab at predicting which current and recent quarterbacks will make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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Steve Young Might Have Been the Best Quarterback of All Time

Who was the best quarterback of all time? Here is my attempt at answering that question.
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Friday, February 22, 2019

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Tutorial: Writing a Vue App from Start to Deployment

I didn't see any nice tutorials from start to finish on writing and deploying a Vue app, so I wrote down all the steps with a sample project. The sample project uses Vuetify as the Vue framework and plotly as the plotting framework. To get started, here is the finished product.


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Thursday, February 14, 2019

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What Does R^2 Mean in Linear Regression?

You see r^2 constantly when you see linear fits or linear regression. You'll often hear that it represents '% of variance explained by the model'. What does that mean?


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Friday, February 8, 2019

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Find All Ints Less Than N with M Digits Equal to 1 in Their Binary Representation

We stumbled on a fun algorithm problem in the wild at work this week.
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Sunday, February 3, 2019

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Antonio Brown Is on Track to Be One of the Best Wide Receivers in History

Who were the best wide receivers ever? Here is my attempt at answering that question...
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