To be honest, RankMyPhoto is a pretty skeezy website. It encourages objectification and seems like a big cry for attention. The premise is you upload a photo of yourself and anonymous internet users can rank your attractiveness and also vote…
Web Scraping and Corpus Analysis with Python: A Seinfeld Case Study
A few years ago, I discovered the hilarity that is Curb Your Enthusiasm. Good or bad, I see a lot of myself in Larry’s character. I kept seeing references to Seinfeld and of course culturally know it as a classic…
Are there more countries now than there used to be?
This question came to me out of no where one day. It’s simple, but brings up some interesting ideas. Obviously at one point there would have been just a handful of countries, but over time more and more were created.…
National School Lunch Program Participation
In the U.S. we have a national program for school children that allows them to get get reduced cost or free meals. Meals are available to all students and based on family income, some children are eligible for either free…
How to get to the Project Runway finale
I recently saw this hazard rate analysis of RuPaul’s Drag Race and was inspired to do some analysis on the one reality show I watch: Project Runway. I’ve found that the downsides to hazard rates is that they are very…