Movie Review Aggregator Ratings Have No Relationship with Box Office Success

Perhaps the movie rating system itself is broken.

January 7, 2016 · 7 min

Plotting a Map of New York City Using Only Taxi Location Data

In theory, plotting a million little points in close proximity should simulate the lines of the streets of New York City.

August 7, 2015 · 4 min

How to Scrape Data From Facebook Page Posts for Statistical Analysis

It is pretty easy to scrape Facebook Posts data and make into a spreadsheet for easy analysis, although there are a large number of gotchas.

July 20, 2015 · 7 min

Locating All the Christmas Trees on Instagram

I downloaded hundreds of thousands of #tree images and found 25,432 images which were taken on Christmas, have a #tree, and, most importantly, contain location data where the photo was taken.

January 1, 2015 · 5 min