Until recently, Udacity has specialized in technical courses. However, late last year they released Tales from the Genome, an introductory course on genetics. I was a bit skeptical of how the material would be presented, but I was interested enough…
How to use the Yelp API in Python
In last week’s post, I pulled data about local restaurants from Yelp to generate a dataset. I was happy to find that Yelp actually has a very friendly API. This guide will walk you through setting up some boiler plate…
Restaurants Closer to Columbus’ Population Center are Better
Following my last post on Ohio’s population center, I wanted to get a bit more local. My home town of Columbus has a unique population characteristic: the population is almost uniformly dense. Despite this, I know from personal experience that…
Population Center of Ohio
There are a few different ways of determining a population’s center, but the method I used for this graph is the one currently used by the Census [PDF]. If every person were the same weight, where would the balancing point…
Opening moves in the game of Go: Fuseki Stats
Go (or weiqi or baduk) is an extremely popular strategy game in East Asia that became more popular in the West during the last century. I first came across it several years ago and have played on an off since…