As curtains close on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics I thought I’d take a look at one of my favorite athletes: Ryan Crouser. After breaking the 31-year-old world record earlier this year (below), Crouser traveled to Tokyo and easily won Olympic
Many Americans have picked up a new hobby in recent years: sports betting. The industry has exploded since the US Supreme Court threw out a federal ban in 2018. While the stereotype is still a smoke-filled room in a dark
Today let’s dip our toes into the SQL world. We’ve spent a lot of time working with pandas and CSV files but data won’t always be packaged that way. It’s a valuable skill to be comfortable with data in all
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?
“What’s a palindrome again? Wait, I think that’s an anagram. I can’t even spell onomatopoeia.” A palindrome is a word or phrase (or anything, really) that’s written the same forward and backward. For example: Racecar Madam Evil olive Step on
Every Friday morning FiveThirtyEight posts a math challenge in their Riddler column. The May 21, 2021 problem featured “anti-isosceles” sets. I’ll let the Riddler himself explain in more detail: But this week, Jordan is asking about what he calls
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
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. —Henry Adams Recently I watched a Youtube video from Numberphile that piqued my interest. If you aren’t familiar with the channel, they produce a lot of short math
Following the NFL Draft I thought it would be fun to look at data from the Scouting Combine. For those unfamiliar, the NFL Combine is an annual event where football’s brightest prospects are invited to show off their talents in
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
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