We don’t usually think of Scala as a front-end language, but Scala.js is challenging that assumption. The framework gives you easy access to the DOM and therefore the canvas, making it trivial to develop an HTML5 application. To demonstrate this,…
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…
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…
Predicting Performance at Ohio High Schools
The Ohio Department of Education recently released new statistics for school performance. The big news surrounding them was the inclusion of letter grades. However, overall letter grades will not go into effect until 2015. Until then, there are still some…
What factors determine if a university’s alumni will donate?
Last week, I caught a post on reddit from Vizual Statistix where data on university alumni giving rates was plotted. The graph was very polished and I saw there were a lot of factors plotted. The main correlation that better…