NaNoGenMo is an idea created by Darius Kazemi to parody NaNoWriWo. Instead of writing a novel, developers write programs to generate 50k+ word “novels”. This series of posts will document my participation throughout the month. With the scaffolding in place…
A Social Network of Downton Abbey
Some of my favorite television shows are those with ensemble casts. I feel that a large cast keeps the episodes fresh and makes it hard to tire of a particular character since every character is just a small piece of…
Plotting Seinfeld Episode Scores by Season Using ggplot2
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 It got a lot of traffic, but as it turned out the data I was using was incorrect/outdated/malformed.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…
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…