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Recently, I came across a blog my college roomates and I had kept throughout the last semester of our senior year. It was, largely, a cooking blog, and small-ly, a walking blog, because I was not at a stage where I could give anybody advice about cooking that didn’t start and end with a microwave.
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I began paying attention to Katie Ledecky, the American distance swimmer, after Brian Phillips wrote a fantastic profile on her for Grantland, in the fall of 2014. Ledecky was seventeen then; she had been the reigning world record-holder in the women’s 800 meter freestyle for over 2 years. Actually, reigning, which suggests stasis, isn’t the
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I write this sitting in the kitchen sink… Just kidding! My kitchen sink barely holds one wriggling (fat) pug. In truth, I write this melting, Elmira-style, in the peak of #heatdome2016. Temperatures like these (mid 90’s, egads!), merit rewards merely for enduring them, and what is a five dollar vat of caffeine if not a
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A picture is worth 1,000 words, or so throw pillows tell me. A good data visualization can be worth millions of rows (or thousands, or billions, even, depending on the size of the data you’re illustrating). Conversely, a bad data visualization, put into the wrong hands, can be just as harmful as a photoshopped Sandy doomsday photo. The previous
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The year I turned eight, I listened to Prince every Wednesday night. Wednesdays were my mother’s night to drive me and two other girls to and from swim practice. The practices were held at Wellesley College, and in my memory they started late — after dinner, certainly, though before dessert. The trip to the pool from
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In his short story Funes, the Memorious, the Argentine writer Jorge Borges writes of a teenager, Funes, whose mind contains the world, and all of its history. To access this information, Funes devises a system of one-to-one enumeration. “In place of seven thousand thirteen, he would say (for example) Mdximo Perez; in place of seven
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Before you can extract any insights from data, you need to have the data in the first place. If you’re lucky, you do have the data sitting pretty in a database or can easily export it from its source origin. If you don’t, however, you can hit up an API to get it. You also
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A few years ago, I began the process of changing my career from marketing to data science. The company I was working for formed a sort of internal innovation lab to work on big data products; when I joined it, I stopped marketing enterprise reporting solutions for .NET developers and started marketing an email application that
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This past week, I spent some serious QT with an old friend: Harry Potter. The week had started out on the rougher side, with a pitbull attack that left my dog’s neck and my right calf somewhat worse for the wear. I wanted something comforting to read, the first night, and for some reason Harry
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My mother was, and remains, a Latin teacher, and Latin was, and remains a common point of interest between her and my father, who were both classics majors and met at the classics booth on my mother’s first day of shopping classes (my father was the booth boy, and my mother took the bait, at
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