I recently made a post over at reddit showing the IMDB scores of Seinfeld episodes by season. It got a lot of traffic, but as it turned out the data I was using was incorrect/outdated/malformed. I also got a lot…
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.…
A Different Look at the “Rising Age of Marriage”
It’s well known that people in the U.S. are getting married later in life. Today I heard that same fact on the SYSK Podcast, but it struck me that we’re also living longer. Sure we’re getting married later in terms…
Will I Get Rained On?
I’m a bike commuter and while I really enjoy it, getting rained on is a little bit annoying. This is actually something that people are most concerned about when they learn I commute by bike, but honestly, it doesn’t happen…