A Statistical Analysis of 1.2 Million Amazon Reviews

Analyzing the dataset of 1.2 million Amazon reviews, I found some interesting statistical trends; some are intuitive and obvious, but others give insight to how Amazon’s review system actually works.

June 17, 2014 · 7 min

Mapping San Francisco Locations Using Facebook Data

With the data on approximately 8,000 Facebook Places in San Francisco, we can map where San Franciscans are checking-in, and determine what types of locations they like to visit.

April 8, 2014 · 5 min

Does Adding Many Tags to an Instagram Photo Maximize the Number of Likes?

Instagram photos which have the maximum of 30 #tags receive, on average, about three times as many Likes than photos with only a few tags.

March 24, 2014 · 4 min

A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions

After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.

February 24, 2014 · 8 min

How Many #nofilter Instagram Photos Actually Have No Filter?

Not all of them.

February 10, 2014 · 1 min