All Posts
2020
Reverse Engineering Uber and Lyft Surge Pricing in Chicago
2019
Mapping Motor Vehicle Collisions in New York City
2018
Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway
Assessing Shooting Performance in NBA and NCAA Basketball
2017
When Are Citi Bikes Faster Than Taxis in New York City?
Chicago’s Public Taxi Data
2016
The Simpsons by the Data
Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
BallR: Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny
A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bike Rides: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System
2015
Analyzing 1.1 Billion NYC Taxi and Uber Trips, with a Vengeance
Electability of 2016 Presidential Candidates as Implied by Betting Markets
A Statistical Analysis of the LearnedLeague Trivia Competition
Mortgages Are About Math: Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
Every Team’s Chances of Winning in Every Minute, According to Gamblers
2014
Twitter’s Corporate Strategy Statement using only NAND Gates
The TechCrunch Bubble Index: Parsing Headlines to Quantify Startup Hype
The reddit Front Page is Not a Meritocracy
How Many Paths are Possible in an 18 Hole Round of Match Play Golf?
The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny
Do you work for AN investment bank, or THE investment bank?
Real-time NBA Championship Odds Before and After LeBron James’s Announcement
What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?
RailsConf: In Rodd We Trust
What Real-Time Gambling Data Reveals About Sports: Introducing Gambletron 2000
2013
Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle
When Harvard Met Sally: N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section
Posts on other sites
In addition to posts on this site, I’ve written a few posts on other sites:
- Golf analytics and the Masters at FiveThirtyEight
- New York Times wedding announcements, part 2 at Vox
- Taxi use patterns during the Super Bowl at NYT’s The Upshot