In my previous post, I noted the low median income in the census tract surrounding the Sedgwick stop on the Brown and Purple Lines. That the median income in that part of the city would be less than $20k went against my own experience of Chicago—as well as my prejudices about the North Side. How [...]
Pete sent out this New Yorker interactive web thingy that handsomely redraws each MTA line as, instead, a graph of median income rising and falling as the trains move between poorer and richer neighborhoods. I figured it would take only a few hours to throw something similar for Chicago, and I was right. Below are [...]
[I was going to save this post until the new year, but the recent appearance of @10print_ebooks, the Markov chain bot for the fascinating (freely-available) book 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 made me eager to unveil this a bit earlier.] you are literally deconstructing century+ old text and still finding meaning (a response to [...]
[This post is a slightly enhanced version of an email I sent to the Humanist mailing list today in response to this message asking about the value of GIS curriculum in scholarship. Here, I begin by quoting the relevant parts of the original post] At my university, a vice president has been arguing that there [...]
I write this shameful post as someone who has taken more than a week’s worth of statistics classes (and gotten ok grades). And after I spent all night last night trying to figure out a way to have the answer below make sense, I figure it makes sense to try to put the answer online. [...]
“By 1930 in the Soviet Union it was a different story. It was not that Marxist economics could not be quantitative but that it should not be quantitative. Stalin believed twinning mathematics and Marxist economics made it “the most reactionary bran…
Yesterday I put together some data on the Premier League to see if an old hypothesis (relegation leads to the same couple of teams going up and down) was true. Turns out it wasn’t. In the 18 completed seasons of the Premier League, 43 different teams have participated, and most teams that come up, stay [...]
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Today’s huge news, regarding the agreement in principle of a sale of Liverpool Football Club to New England Sports Ventures (the company that owns, among other things, the Boston Red Sox) has prompted me to do something I’ve been meaning to do for a long, long time: look at the history of the Premiership table [...]
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[A lot of the below is meandering toward what I suspect is a rather obvious conclusion to hardened veterans of the digital humanities. Since I'm not one of those, my own shoes needed to walk the mile. Of what transpires below, what might be new is, quickly, how while there is a call for digital [...]
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Yesterday’s post on the tension between curatorial/service-y intellectual work and straight up analytical work was intentionally kept rather general, both for larger appeal and since I’m trying to figure out my approach to these questions in a way that’s consistent. Today, I’ll be a bit more specific, and this is sort of a warning about [...]
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