Social Media Analytics

Thanks to a few new synergies within GCP products, it’s possible to get the cost of running a scheduled task down to less than a dollar a month.

MOOCs and thought pieces overfit to a certain style of data science that is not robust to the vast uncertainties of the real world.

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.

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.

In general, it takes little additional effort to make something unique with ggplot2, and the effort is well worth it.