Posted on 24 Nov 2016 in Data science • Tagged with oscars, movies, imdb, python
It's really easy to associate important subjects or people only with those that win prizes: books that won the Pulitzer, for example, or authors that won the Nobel Prize. Appropriate recognition and appreciation is never universal, but it almost always requires more time and evaluation in a historical context ...
Posted on 04 Oct 2016 in Data science • Tagged with nps, maps, python
I really love the US National Park System — I think it's one of the best things about our country. The 400+ sites administered by the National Park Service (NPS) covers a huge range of natural and historical importance. Since 2016 is the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service ...
Posted on 18 Sep 2016 in Data science • Tagged with nobel, maps, R
I played a lot of quiz bowl as a undergrad in college, and one of the ways our team practiced was in memorizing specific lists of knowledge that we knew came up often in competition (yay data). One area that was always useful across the board was the Nobel Prizes ...