Former President Jimmy Carter recently turned 100 years old. Any American who becomes president has by definition lived an exceptional life, but Carter stands out among peers. While six presidents have lived into their 90s, including Carter, he’s now the
Split-ticket voting is when you select candidates of different political parties on the same ballot. You might vote for a Democrat for state legislature and a Republican for mayor. That’s in contrast to straight-ticket voting, which of course means picking
Today marks 60 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. I’ll do a quick dive into the bill’s history and then create a map of Congress’s final vote. If you’d rather skip to the code,
The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) collects crime-related data from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. The FBI then compiles the data and publishes quarterly and annual reports. It isn’t a perfect snapshot of crime as participation
Today is Election Day in the United States and I thought it would be fun to dip my toes into election forecasting. I’ll build a very simple model based on race ratings published by The Cook Political Report. I’ll check
With Independence Day coming this weekend I thought I’d take a closer look at the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. How old were they? Where were they from? What did they do? What did their families look like?
I’m going to write a little about a Twitter bot I created: @HR_15951. It’s been active since January 2021, shortly after the current House and Senate sessions began. The bot has one very important job: to wish representatives and senators
Like a lot of data nerds I was excited to check out the new US Census apportionment data. It only comes once per decade after all. I thought it would be a good chance to work on something I really