Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata
Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
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Visualizing Airline Flight Characteristics Between SFO and JFK
Box plots, when used correctly, can be a very fun way to visualize big data.
Problems with Predicting Post Performance on Reddit and Other Link Aggregators
The nature of algorithmic feeds like Reddit inherently leads to a survivorship bias: although users may recognize certain types of posts that appear on the front page, there are many more which follow the same patterns but fail.
Analyzing IMDb Data The Intended Way, with R and ggplot2
For IMDb’s big-but-not-big data, you have to play with the data smartly, and both R and ggplot2 have neat tricks to do just that.
Visualizing One Million NCAA Basketball Shots
Although visualizing basketball shots has been done before, this time we have access to an order of magnitude more public data to do some really cool stuff.